Inviolate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inviolate
       adj 1: (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact,
              virginal" [syn: {intact}]
       2: must be kept sacred [syn: {inviolable}, {sacrosanct}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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