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adjective

Inviolated, Inviolate adj.

Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken. "His fortune of arms was still inviolate."

Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure. "Inviolate truth." "There chaste Alceste lives inviolate."

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Etymology of 'Inviolate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... sleeping, while the other, which is under the figure of the personification of religion, couches—but is awake, in attitude of guarding inviolate the approach to the sepulchre, and ready with a tremendous roar to ...

— Heads and Tales • Various

... the haunted hill Touched with the morn's inviolate gleam. All fearfully wild heart and will Drank rapture in the face of ill! Our spirits thrilled to answer thrill, ...

— Iolaeus - The man that was a ghost • James A. Mackereth

... which I truly am different. When I want anything I know more clearly what it is, and why I want it than most other girls do, and not only that, but I know now, that I want to keep myself, and everything I think and feel and am,—sacred. There is an inner shrine in a woman's soul that she must keep inviolate. ...

— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley

... puffed in scorn, the peace-pipe's smoke Through the gray beard of Waldron broke, And Squando's voice, in suppliant plea For mercy, struck the haughty key Of one who held in any fate His native pride inviolate! ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various

... all this," the cripple said. "You have entirely by accident come face to face with a phase in my life which is sacred and inviolate. Really, if I had no other reason for reducing you to silence, this would be a sufficiently powerful inducement. My dear Beth, I ...

— The Mystery of the Four Fingers • Fred M. White

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