inviolate

From Latin inviolātus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvaɪ.ə.lət/, /ɪnˈvaɪ.əʊˌleɪt/

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inviolate (comparative more inviolate, superlative most inviolate)

1. Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     His fortune of arms was still inviolate.

   • 1987 February 8, Robert Storen, “On Being Cozy with Mister Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 29, page 12:

     A partner can also, hopefully, be trusted more fully than any other person in our lives. Our courts recognize this by refusing to allow a person to testify against his or her spouse. The sanctity of the home, by which they mean the couple, is inviolate.

2. Incorruptible.
   • 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)

     inviolate truth

   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgils Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.

• inviolacy
• inviolately
• inviolateness

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inviolate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /in.vi.oˈla.te/, /in.vjoˈla.te/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: in‧vi‧o‧là‧te, in‧vio‧là‧te

inviolate

1. feminine plural of inviolato

• involiate, lievitano, olivetani, violentai, violinate

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.wi.ɔˈɫaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iɱ.vi.oˈlaː.t̪e]

inviolāte

1. vocative masculine singular of inviolātus

• “inviolate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inviolate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers