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inviolable, a.|ɪnˈvaɪələb(ə)l|
[ad. L. inviolābil-is (f. in- (in-3) + violābilis, f. violāre to do violence to, violate), or a. F. inviolable (14th c.).]
1. Not to be violated; not liable or allowed to suffer violence; to be kept sacredly free from profanation, infraction, or assault.
a. Of laws, treaties, institutions, customs, principles, sacred or cherished feelings, etc.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 527/2 The churche is..the pyller of trouth for the inuiolable suretie of doctrine. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. iii. 131 Not at all adventures, and without rule, but by an inuiolable lawe of God. 1682Norris Hierocles 41 So will our piety towards God, and the measures of Justice be kept inviolable. 1783Watson Philip III (1839) 225 Maintaining the most inviolable secrecy. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 926 Styx is the inviolable oath. 1841James Brigand xxix, My word is said, and it shall be inviolable. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 135 He ought to have determined that the existing settlement of landed property should be inviolable.
b. Of persons, places, and things material.
1578T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 159 You are persons inviolable, and messengers of a prince. 1674Owen Holy Spirit (1693) 80 Things precious are sealed up, that they may be kept safe and inviolable. 1725Pope Odyss. xxii. 372 Jove's inviolable altar. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxxiii. (1862) VI. 396 The Spartan king was not legally inviolable. He might be, and occasionally was, arrested, tried, and punished for misbehaviour in the discharge of his functions. 1863Mrs. Oliphant Salem Ch. I. xiii. 211 Safe..in a humble inviolable English home.
†2. That cannot be violated; that does not yield to force or violence; incapable of being broken, forced, or injured. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 316/2 Invyolable nat able to be broken, inuiolable. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 20 Those things that the Prophet hath ioined with an inuiolable knot. 1607E. Grimstone tr. Goulart's Mem. Hist. 278 He never sturd one iot, but remained firme and inviolable, as if he had beene planted there. 1614Lodge Seneca 95 Neither therefore can the fire burne lesse, if it light upon a matter inviolable by fire. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 398 Th' inviolable Saints In Cubic Phalanx firm advanc't entire. 1719Waterland Vind. Christ's Div. xxiii. (1720) 364 Tertullian intimates the strict and inviolable Harmony of the three Persons. |