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US
/ˈvaɪəɫəbəɫ/
]
ADJECTIVE
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capable of being violated
a violable rule
a violable contract
How To Use violable In A Sentence
- There is no inviolable sacred ground when it comes to reform.
- In this way, Hawley’s goals surpassed those of the Self-Strengthening Movement out of which the C.E.M. had initially sprung and according to which the Chinese mind was, as an essential tenet of that movement, to remain inviolable to external influences. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
- Will we be accused of living in Utopia by asking if there is anything sacrosanct and inviolable anymore?
- Not even Michael eased her mind to the same degree nor conveyed the same certainty of inviolable protection. DEVIL'S BRIDE
- Filling the role of Fiona Belli places the player in limbo between voyeur and subject, exploiter and exploited, violator and violable, and for most players, between masculine and feminine. Critique: Haunting Ground
- During the First World War, the symbol of the Red Cross was seen as inviolable.
- Almost as inviolable, that is, when those who live in it are our friends. Somehow Good
- I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some kind of body in space, either infused into the world, or infinitely diffused beyond the world -- and this was the incorruptible, inviolable, unchangeable substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the violable, and the changeable. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
- Helva wondered whether Ansra, having taken a stand, was too hardheaded to retreat, or unable to believe that one of her standing could be violable. The ship who sang
- Not even Michael eased her mind to the same degree nor conveyed the same certainty of inviolable protection. DEVIL'S BRIDE