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inviolable
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synonyms: infrangible, indefeasible ???
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Definition:never to be broken, infringed nor dishonored.
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From the very moment she flung her fist away from her mouth to cry, I knew my feelings for her were inviolable.
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But Euphues shewed such entire love towards him, that he seemed to make small accompt of any others, determining to enter into such an inviolable league of friendship with him, as neither time by piecemeal should impair, neither fancy utterly dissolve, nor any suspicion infringe.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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But how could such a secession and partial reunion be squared with the Articles of Confederation? The closing section of that document provided that “the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state.”
Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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“Save from calamity Thy servants, O Mother of God,” and the priest and deacon chimed in: “For to Thee under God we all flee as to an inviolable bulwark and protection,”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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he knew what his aim was, because he had carried it hidden since infancy in an inviolable backwater of his heart.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.73 (1970)
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What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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The space ship, seemingly inviolable at the top of a shaft in sacred precincts patrolled by watchmen, had plainly been the scene of one or perhaps several wild parties.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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