Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being violated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being violated, broken, or injured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being violated, broken, or injured.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
violated ,broken , orinjured .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being violated
Etymologies
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Examples
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He then goes on to list as one such violable law, the one ordering military personell to not torture.
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Since the entirety of something cannot be a gross enlargement uppon the vast majority of the same thing, this must mean that Fred thinks that the lawyer only considers a small fraction of laws to be violable by Bush.
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Sovereignty and individual rights now seemed violable -- Iraq today, your country tomorrow.
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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 Steve gaynor 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-06-01 Steve gaynor 2008
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His hand reaches to touch the mirror, but the surface is liquid, violable, lacking solidity.
Short Fiction: Things Past William Harryman 2007
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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 McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969
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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 McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969
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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 345-430 1955
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If they replied that it could have hurt thee, they would then have made thee violable and corruptible.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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