Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inviolate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inviolate \In*vi"o*late\, Inviolated \In*vi"o*la`ted\, a. [L.
inviolatus. See {In-} not, and {Violate}.]
1. Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken.
His fortune of arms was still inviolate. --Bacon.
2. Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure.
``Inviolate truth.'' --Denham.
There chaste Alceste lives inviolate. --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inviolate
adj 1: (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact,
virginal" [syn: {intact}]
2: must be kept sacred [syn: {inviolable}, {sacrosanct}]
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