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1.
prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
2.
incapable of being violated; incorruptible; unassailable: inviolable secrecy.
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Inviolable
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Example Sentences
- IT is reaffirming to reflect on teaching as a noble profession and on the relationship between teacher and student as inviolable.
- Because the childless have no equally virtuous and inviolable excuse, and their arms can be more easily twisted.
- Such companies frequently bleat that personal data is secure and inviolable.
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inviolable
1530, from L. inviolabilis "invulnerable," from in- "not" + violabilis, from violare "to do violence to" (see violation). The adj. inviolate "unbroken, intact" is attested from 1412.
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