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单词 inviolate
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Definition of inviolate in English:

inviolate

adjective ɪnˈvʌɪələtɪnˈvaɪələt
  • Free or safe from injury or violation.

    an international memorial which must remain inviolate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The customers come and go, but the privacy of Mathilde and Antoine's world remains as inviolate as the inside of somebody's head.
    • But instead he chose to treat Eric's comments as an attack by an inviolate expert witness and to emphasise the negatives.
    • They both have an inviolate place into which no other can fit.
    • For the last few years Howard's entire political program has been based on the premise that Australia's sovereignty is not only absolute but inviolate, untouchable, a veritable law of nature.
    • We do not sterilise people who have been convicted of violent offences against children because, however gruesome their crime, their person must remain inviolate.
    • Others, including censorship watchdogs, believe that free speech is not inviolate irrespective of what is said or sung, and that there is such a thing as the abuse of free speech.
    • Such criticism leaves the basic functions of the dominant stratum inviolate.
    • Is it a country where the line between church and state bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers should be inviolate?
    • Think of the recognised classics of American cinema and they seem organic, inviolate.
    • There is no engagement or invitation to the viewer, these women are self-sufficient and contained, inviolate even.
    • Like the 2-party system itself, there is little reason to argue that corporate charters are inviolate.
    • The concept of inviolate national sovereignty yielded to new mechanisms for the international enforcement of human rights.
    • But the wall that split photography's discursive territory into an aesthetic-commercial-public realm, on the one hand, and home duty, on the other, remained inviolate.
    • This notion of sovereignty considers inviolate the internal affairs of nations.
    • Government would remain in charge of public safety, but the evidence on which they based their strategy would be objective and inviolate.
    • Technically faultless and inviolate this is as smooth as painting gets at the start of the 21st century.
    • The two instead experience a ‘precious, inviolate, and genuine’ relationship free from the burdens of racial representation.
    • There was no general privilege that attached to documents brought into existence for the purposes of litigation independent of the need to keep inviolate communications between client and legal adviser.
    • Whatever moral authority we may have to allow or disallow other nations to possess weapons of mass destruction rests on our inviolate commitment to use our weapons only in self-defense.
    • The mere existence of such a throwback in the modern world suggests an inviolate timelessness.
    Synonyms
    untouched, undamaged, unhurt, unharmed, unscathed
    unmarred, unspoilt, unimpaired, unflawed, unsullied, unstained, undefiled, unpolluted, unprofaned, perfect, pristine, pure, virgin
    intact, unbroken, whole, entire, complete, sound, solid
    rare scatheless

Derivatives

  • inviolacy

  • noun ɪnˈvʌɪələsiɪnˈvaɪələsi
    • The right of life and inviolacy are basic rights of man.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This duty to protect the individual's right to bodily inviolacy arises explicitly from the international law of human rights and the Children's Convention.
  • inviolately

  • adverb
    • Death is not a certainty because you can't prove inviolately that it exists.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • vow, with the powerful assistance of God, to clearly, faithfully, and inviolately stay true to the Church's dogmas, doctrines, precepts, and laws until I breathe my last breath.
  • inviolateness

  • noun

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin inviolatus, from in- 'not' + violare 'violate'.

Rhymes

ultraviolet
 
 

Definition of inviolate in US English:

inviolate

adjectiveɪnˈvaɪələtinˈvīələt
  • Free or safe from injury or violation.

    an international memorial which must remain inviolate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They both have an inviolate place into which no other can fit.
    • Is it a country where the line between church and state bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers should be inviolate?
    • This notion of sovereignty considers inviolate the internal affairs of nations.
    • Government would remain in charge of public safety, but the evidence on which they based their strategy would be objective and inviolate.
    • There was no general privilege that attached to documents brought into existence for the purposes of litigation independent of the need to keep inviolate communications between client and legal adviser.
    • Think of the recognised classics of American cinema and they seem organic, inviolate.
    • Such criticism leaves the basic functions of the dominant stratum inviolate.
    • The two instead experience a ‘precious, inviolate, and genuine’ relationship free from the burdens of racial representation.
    • Technically faultless and inviolate this is as smooth as painting gets at the start of the 21st century.
    • Others, including censorship watchdogs, believe that free speech is not inviolate irrespective of what is said or sung, and that there is such a thing as the abuse of free speech.
    • The mere existence of such a throwback in the modern world suggests an inviolate timelessness.
    • But instead he chose to treat Eric's comments as an attack by an inviolate expert witness and to emphasise the negatives.
    • Like the 2-party system itself, there is little reason to argue that corporate charters are inviolate.
    • We do not sterilise people who have been convicted of violent offences against children because, however gruesome their crime, their person must remain inviolate.
    • There is no engagement or invitation to the viewer, these women are self-sufficient and contained, inviolate even.
    • The concept of inviolate national sovereignty yielded to new mechanisms for the international enforcement of human rights.
    • For the last few years Howard's entire political program has been based on the premise that Australia's sovereignty is not only absolute but inviolate, untouchable, a veritable law of nature.
    • Whatever moral authority we may have to allow or disallow other nations to possess weapons of mass destruction rests on our inviolate commitment to use our weapons only in self-defense.
    • The customers come and go, but the privacy of Mathilde and Antoine's world remains as inviolate as the inside of somebody's head.
    • But the wall that split photography's discursive territory into an aesthetic-commercial-public realm, on the one hand, and home duty, on the other, remained inviolate.
    Synonyms
    untouched, undamaged, unhurt, unharmed, unscathed

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin inviolatus, from in- ‘not’ + violare ‘violate’.

 
 
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