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Definition of Inviolable
1. Adjective. Incapable of being transgressed or dishonored. "An inviolable oath"
2. Adjective. Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with. "A secure telephone connection"
Similar to: Invulnerable
Derivative terms: Impregnability, Secureness
3. Adjective. Must be kept sacred.
4. Adjective. Not capable of being violated or infringed. "Infrangible human rights"
Similar to: Inalienable, Unalienable
Derivative terms: Absoluteness
Definition of Inviolable
1. a. Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine.
Definition of Inviolable
1. Adjective. Not violable; not susceptible of violence, or of being profaned or corrupted; incapable of being injured; not to be infringed or dishonoured. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inviolable
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Inviolable
1. 1. Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine. "He tried a third, a tough, well-chosen spear, The inviolable body stood sincere." (Dryden) 2. Unviolated; uninjured; undefiled; uncorrupted. "For thou, be sure, shalt give account To him who sent us, whose charge is to keep This place inviolable, and these from harm." (Milton) 3. Not capable of being broken or violated; as, an inviolable covenant, agreement, promise, or vow. "Their almighty Maker first ordained And bound them with inviolable bands." (Spenser) "And keep our faiths firm and inviolable." (Shak) Origin: L. Inviolabilis: cf. F. Inviolable. See Inviolate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inviolable
Literary usage of Inviolable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"Constitutional right inviolable. 3. Appeal triable by jury not enough. 2.
Minor offenses. 1. Constitutional right inviolable. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"silence of the night, and as the inviolable secret of the mysteries was preserved
by the discretion of the initiated, I shall not presume to describe the ..."
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