Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inviolate manner; so as not to be violated; without violation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an inviolate manner.
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- adverb In an
inviolate manner.
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Examples
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Farishta, horrified, sang louder and louder of Japanese shoes, Russian hats, inviolately subcontinental hearts, but could not still Saladin's wild recital: "And guardian aaaaangels sung the strain."
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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She did not indeed know that she had one, for this one thing Mrs. Westmore had kept inviolately secret.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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But I will add that, had I known, their secrets would have been mine, and inviolately preserved.
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It would be a mere paradox to say that this question, which sunders parties the world over as with a sword, will leave opinion in Ireland inviolately unanimous.
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The packets of sugar I bestowed were inviolately kept for them, and given little by little, though evidently very tempting to the mothers themselves.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887
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San Thome, as reported by 'a common fame, 'and the malicious breaking of the peace' which hath been so happily established, and so long inviolately continued. '
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Jews; all other things, which depended upon the eternal and immutable laws and rights of nature, remaining inviolately the same under both covenants, and as unchanged as nature itself.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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