inviolate

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin inviolatus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

inviolate (comparative more inviolate, superlative most inviolate)

  1. Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
    • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      His fortune of arms was still inviolate.
  2. Incorruptible.
    • (Can we date this quote by Denham and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      inviolate truth
    • (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.

References

Italian

Adjective

inviolate

  1. feminine plural of inviolato

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) inviolāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of inviolātus

References

  • “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
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