inviolate
English
Etymology
From Latin inviolatus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪ.ə.lət/, /ɪnˈvaɪ.əʊˌleɪt/
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Adjective
inviolate (comparative more inviolate, superlative most inviolate)
- Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
- Francis Bacon
- His fortune of arms was still inviolate.
- Francis Bacon
- Incorruptible.
- Denham
- inviolate truth
- Edmund Spenser
- There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.
- Denham
Related terms
Latin
References
- inviolate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- inviolate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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