Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • So as to be inviolable; without violation or violence of any kind: as, a sanctuary inviolably sacred; to keep a promise inviolably.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Without violation.

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  • adverb In an inviolable manner; without violation or violence of any kind.

Etymologies

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inviolable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • A house I receive as a gift, however beautiful, will never feel as inviolably safe to me.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • A house I receive as a gift, however beautiful, will never feel as inviolably safe to me.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • In 1870,The Vatican Council decreed: "For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter,that by His revelation they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apotles."

    TEXAS FAITH: Obama, Congress, CEOs and leadership styles | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • Madjess: I will let Vatican Council I speak for me: For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter, that by His revelation they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apostles...

    TEXAS FAITH: Why are millennials dropping out? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • I quote Vatican Council I: "For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter, that by His revelation they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of the faith delivered through the Apostles."

    McLaren, Rohr to speak at `Emerging Church' conference in Dallas | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • One effect of parents 'over-involvement in their children's' lives has been the demise of those arenas of childhood that were once inviolably the province of children themselves: unsupervised play, neighborhood baseball games and other settings where children first exercised their moral imaginations and were forced to cope independently with their own shortcomings.

    The Praise Craze Dana Mack 2009

  • According to Vatican Council I: "The Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter that by his revelation, they might make new doctrine, but that by his assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apostles".

    SMU hosts religious `Responses to Darwin in America' lecture | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • And that the Articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the States we respectively represent, and that the Union shall be perpetual.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Release the Koh Memorandum on Honduras 2009

  • Vatican I: For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter, that by His revelation, they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apostles.

    TEXAS FAITH: Why should science talk to religion? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • She hoped to catch the voice of her uncle: but all was inviolably still.

    Camilla 2008

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