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▪ I. inviolate, a.|ɪnˈvaɪələt|
[ad. L. inviolāt-us unhurt, f. in- (in-3) + violātus, pa. pple. of violāre to violate. Cf. obs. F. inviolé (Godef. Compl.).]
Not violated; free from violation; unhurt, uninjured, unbroken; unprofaned, unmarred; intact. a. Of laws, compacts, principles, institutions, sacred or moral qualities.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vi. (1555) D v b/2 With herte unfayned and fayth inuyolate. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 540 That the amyte atwene y⊇ .ii. realmys..may be kepte inuyolet. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxviii. v, They did not hold inviolate The league of God. 1646P. Bulkeley Gospel Covt. v. 370 Though..man failed in his duty, yet the covenant on God's part remaines inviolate. 1734Bolingbroke Let. to Swift 27 June, To see such a thing as sincere cordial friendship subsist inviolate. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1875) I. 431 The existing institutions..were to be preserved inviolate.
b. Of persons, places, sacred things, etc.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3696 And in hir clene virginal estat Restored he þis mayde inuiolat. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 4882 To whame inviolat childid thi maydenes mylk was fedyng. 1615Crooke Body of Man 376 The heat of the right must..be in time extinguished, the heat of the left remaining inviolate. 1744Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Wortley Montagu 6 May, Fearing that my letter will not come inviolate to your hands. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 347 Clement VIII ordered that the relics should remain untouched, inviolate.
†c. Of a person: Of unbroken faith. Obs.
1593Drayton Idea 713 Though Heaven and Earth, prove both to me untrue, Yet still I am inviolate to You.
▪ II. † inviolate, v. Obs. rare.
[f. in-2 + violate.]
trans. To violate.
1569Sir J. Hawkins in Hawkins' Voyages (Hakluyt Soc.) 76 That none of either part should..inuiolate the peace vpon paine of death. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars ii. xvi, Canst thou (vnkinde!) inuiolate that band? 1681Lond. Gaz. No. 1638/6 Laws, Liberties, Properties..which had been..insolently inviolated, desperately invaded. |