inviolable

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Jerusalem be holy and inviolable, and free from the tithe, and from the taxes, unto its utmost bounds.

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  1. adjective Secure from violation or profanation: an inviolable reliquary deep beneath the altar.
  2. adjective Impregnable to assault or trespass; invincible: fortifications that made the frontier inviolable.

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  • Gone were the Victorian days when the right to dispose of property freely was inviolable, and wives and children could be cut off without a penny if they displeased their husbands or fathers. —  Fox Evil
  • Nick Schager: "Doubt works so diligently at setting up a scenario where truth can't be definitively ascertained that its concluding argument about the universality (and reasonableness) of doubt - and the danger of rigid conviction - feels somewhat artificially inviolable, the filmmaker stacking the deck in favor of uncertainty to a degree that makes his final argument feel too easy." —  GreenCine Daily
  • And since Rule #2 of Reality TV is inviolable, the Barboursville beauty's fierceness was defused, as Tyra delivered the line all —  Readthehook.com - Current Articles
  • It is because it is an inviolable, a sacred rule among all those tribes, for the woman, when having her monthly sickness, to drop all work, absent herself from the lodge, and remain in perfect rest as long as the discharge continues Traces of this wide-spread custom among primitive people, extended themselves, are discoverable among civilized lands. —  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
  • Though his fidelity remained inviolable, a seditious army could compel him, even if unwilling, to become its instrument. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin inviolābilis : in-, not; see in-1 + violāre, to violate; see violate.

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  1. = French inviolable = Spanish inviolable = Portuguese inviolavel = Italian inviolabilc, from Latin inviolabilis, invulnerable, imperishable, inviolable, from in- privative + violabilis, violable: see violable.
 

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