Inviolate \In*vi"o*late\, Inviolated \In*vi"o*la`ted\, a. [L.
inviolatus. See In- not, and Violate.]
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1. Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken.
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His fortune of arms was still inviolate. --Bacon.
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2. Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure.
"Inviolate truth." --Denham.
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There chaste Alceste lives inviolate. --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inviolate
adj 1: (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact,
virginal" [syn: intact]
2: must be kept sacred [syn: inviolable, sacrosanct]
WordNet (r) 2.0
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "inviolate":
Christian, abiding, awesome, awful, blameless, bright, changeless,
clean, constant, continuing, creditable, decent, divine, durable,
enduring, erect, estimable, ethical, fair, faultless, firm, fixed,
flawless, fresh, frozen, full of integrity, good, harmless,
heavenly, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, holy,
honest, honorable, immaculate, immobile, immutable, ineffable,
inenarrable, inexpressible, intact, inviolable, irreproachable,
just, lasting, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, mint,
moral, noble, numinous, perfect, permanent, perpetual, persistent,
principled, pristine, pure, quiescent, religious, remaining,
reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, rigid,
sacred, sacrosanct, scatheless, solid, spiritual, spotless, stable,
stainless, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, sterling,
sustained, torpid, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing,
true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unaltered, unblemished,
unbroken, unbruised, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging,
unchecked, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled,
undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, unfaded, unfading,
unfailing, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, unimpeachable, uninjured,
unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unscarred, unscathed,
unscratched, unshattered, unshifting, unspeakable, unspoiled,
unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, untorn, untouchable,
untouched, unutterable, unvaried, unvarying, unwithered, unworn,
upright, uprighteous, upstanding, venerable, virgin, virtuous,
worthy, yeomanly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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