inviolate
Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
“His fortune of arms was still inviolate.”
“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.”
Incorruptible.
“inviolate truth”
“There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.”
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From Middle English inviolat, inviolate, from Latin inviolātus. By surface analysis, in- (“not”) + violate (adjective).
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