inviolate

Examples

• All

• This land, deep and inviolate, paid for in blood, infused with the life spirit of those who would endure on its face.

  Passion Fish (1992)

• The confessional is inviolate.

  A Prayer for the Dying (1987)

• But your honor is your own, inviolate.

  Taps (1981)

• They are the ones who will protect and hold inviolate your vote.

• The bottom will remain inviolate, the fish undisturbed.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The person of an ambassador is sacred, inviolate.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Hadn't she, too, once believed her marriage was inviolate?

  Fiction book (1998)

• Love, in its pure state, divorced from our lives, might escape and remain inviolate, even as our lives might be tainted.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Meredith's heart held the memories intact, held them inviolate...

  Fiction book (1996)

• His right to opinion is still inviolate, except by rude, inconsiderate, ill-mannered fools like you.

  Blog text (21)

Synonyms

S

sacrosanct

vsinviolate

• Formal

14 9.1

Too important to change or question

is the state of being kept pure or unbroken rather than only respected

I

inviolable

vsinviolate

• Formal

5 8.6

Too important or sacred to be broken

is the condition of remaining pure or untouched rather than a rule

U

unmolested

vsinviolate

5 6.5

Left alone and not harmed or disturbed

focuses on remaining pure and sacred, not merely being left alone

U

unviolated

vsinviolate

• Formal

7.2

Remains whole and not broken, especially a law or agreement

is more about being pure or sacred, not just legally intact

Antonyms

C

changed

1.0

Different from how it was before

How Untouched

sacred

218 4.3

inviolate

• Formal

3 9.6

intact

304 3.7

unspoiled

11 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology