Definition of Inviolable

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Inviolable

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.

Unviolated; uninjured; undefiled; uncorrupted.

Not capable of being broken or violated; as, an inviolable covenant, agreement, promise, or vow.

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Inviolable Quotations

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.
Danielle Steel

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
William E. Gladstone

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
Helen Prejean

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
Peter Coyote

Inviolable Translations

inviolable in German is unantastbar, unverletzlich
inviolable in Norwegian is ukrenkelig

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