Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inviolate; unviolated.
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- adjective Not
violated orinjured ;inviolate .
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Examples
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Something in her tone suggested that the inviolated solitude of the asylum suggested itself to her as a fitting spot.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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Elysées "to the frenzied cries of the populace saluting its victorious army, and greeting with wild applause" Pétain, who kept Verdun inviolated, "" De Castelnau, who three times in the fray saw a son fall at his side, "" Gouraud, the Fearless, "" Marchand, who rushed on the
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes Mildred Aldrich 1890
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But a geographer in our days would have to write a great deal more, for the interior of this country is no longer a deep inviolated mystery, and its aspect has proved very different from what studies, made at a prudent distance, had led us to imagine.
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882
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Scotland, to preserve and keep inviolated: neither shall they transfer, nor alienate the same.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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"We lived," said Baxter, "in inviolated love and mutual complacency, sensible of the benefit of mutual help, nearly nineteen years."
Character Samuel Smiles 1858
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It is not the defender of the Sicilians, it is not your accuser, it is not the Segestans, who require this of you; it is he, who has undertaken to presei-ve inviolated the glory of P. Africanus.
The two last pleadings of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Caius Verres; Kelsall, Charles, tr 1812
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'of our constancy (as men may promise) till our lives end; yea, farther, we will divulgate and set abroad a charge and commandment to our posterity, that the amity and league between you and us contracted and begun in Christ Jesus may by them be kept inviolated for ever.'
John Knox A. Taylor Innes
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Gerson to be most true, to wit, that they remain inviolated so long as the law of charity is not by men violated about the same.”
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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