inviolate

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I deemed his word inviolate, and now he has broken it Do not judge Sir Max too harshly," said Castleman; "you may wrong him.

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  1. adjective Not violated or profaned; intact: "The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim” (Thomas Hardy).

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  • The divine love might wind inextricably about him,[133] the dance of plastic circumstance at the divine bidding impress its rhythms upon his life,[134] he retained his human identity inviolate, a “point of central rock” amid the welter of the waves. —  Robert Browning
  • Still I pursued my plan of the most rigid domestic propriety; still I preserved my faith inviolate, my name unsullied. —  Beaux and Belles of England
  • But Taif remained inviolate, and each attack upon her walls made with massed troops in the hope of scaling her fortresses was received by heated balls flung from the battlements which set the scaling ladders on fire and brought destruction upon the helpless bodies of Mahomet's soldiery. —  Mahomet
  • Through all vicissitudes he preserved his youth inviolate, and died, like one whom the gods love, or like a hero of Hellenic story, young, despite grey hairs and suffering. —  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • McCain's stance on the war is inviolate -- it involves what for him are principles of honor that stretch back immediately and directly to his own experiences in the Vietnam war, and to those of his father in World War II. —  Top Stories - Google News
 

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  1. Middle English, from Latin inviolātus : in-, not; see in-1 + violātus, past participle of violāre, to violate; see violate.

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  1. from Middle English inviolate = Spanish Portuguese inviolado = Italian inviolato, from Latin inviolatus, unhurt, from in- privative + violatus, hurt: see violate.
 

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