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Definition: Inviolate |
InviolateAdjective1. (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact, virginal". 2. Must be kept sacred. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inviolate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: InviolateSynonyms: intact (adj), inviolable (adj), sacrosanct (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Adjective: concealed; Verb: hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous. |
Permanence | Adjective: stable; persisting; Verb: permanent; established; unchanged; (change; ); renewed; intact, inviolate; persistent; monotonous, uncheckered; unfailing. |
Probity | Inviolable, inviolate; unviolated, unbroken, unbetrayed; unbought, unbribed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inviolate |
| English words defined with "inviolate": Inviolacy, Inviolaness, Inviolately. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inviolate": City Hall ♦ Iron Mask ♦ Sylphs. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inviolate": inviolable. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | In the first place we have granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs forever that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we will that it be thus observed; which is apparent from this that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English Church, we, of our pure and unconstrained will, did grant, and did by our charter confirm and did obtain the ratification of the same from our lord, Pope Innocent III, before the quarrel arose between us and our barons: and this we will observe, and our will is that it be observed in good faith by our heirs forever. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | In suits at common law, between man and man, the trial by jury, as one of the best securities to the rights of the people, ought to remain inviolate. |
Rutherford Hayes | 1877-1881 | But it must not be forgotten that only a local government which recognizes and maintains inviolate the rights of all is a true self-government. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Inviolate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Inviolate" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.89% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "inviolate": egg-inviolate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inviolate | 9 |
in inviolate realm roman | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inviolate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا تنتهك حرمته (inviolable), غير منتهك, طاهر (chaste, clean, clear, immaculate, innocent, pure, saintly, spotless, unstained, virgin, virtuous, white). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不容侵犯. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neporušený (intact, unbroken, whole), nedotèený (intact, undisturbed, unspoiled, untouched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rikkomaton, rikkoja, loukkaamaton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inviolé (inviolated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unbeschadet (irrespective of, regardless of, unscathed), unberührt (fresh, impervious, maiden, pristine, recent, unaffected, unaffectedly, undazzled, undisturbed, unmoved, unslept-in, unspoiled, unspoilt, unsullied, untouched, untouchedly, untrodden, virgin, virginal), unangetastet (unsolicited, untouched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άθικτοσ (intact, intangible, unscathed, untouchable, untouched), αβλαβήσ (harmless, hurtless, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, scatheless, scot free, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, unoffending, unscathed), απαραβίαστοσ (inviolable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לא מופר, לא מחולל. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sértetlen (intact, scatheless, scot free, scot-free, sound, unbroken, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unscathed, whole), érintetlen (intact, untouched, virgin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inviolato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | slane (absolute, absolute of ruler, absolutely, chin-chin, complete, entire, fully, gross, healed, intact, integer, perfect, sane, sheer, thorough, total, unbroken, undivided, unexpurgated as edition; good bye, unexpurgated; good bye, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, utter, well, whole), neuhrulleeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inviolateay inviolado (unbroken), não devassado. (various references) virgin (immaculate, pure, virgin, virginal), nestrãbãtut (unknown), necãlcat de om. (various references) неоскверненный, ненарушенный, не нарушенный. (various references) nepovređen (unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unscathed). (various references) inviolado. (various references) orörd (intact, integral, undisturbed, virgin), okränkt, oantastad (unimpeded). (various references) kutsal (blessed, celestial, divine, heavenly, hiero-, holy, sacramental, sacred, sacrosanct, Saint, sainted, saintly, sanctified, sanctus, solemn, venerable), bozulmamış (intact, pristine, sound, unbroken, unimpaired, unsophisticated, unspoiled, unspoilt, untainted, untouched), çiğnenmemiş. (various references) незайманий (chaste, untapped, wild, zoned), непорушений (uninterrupted, unmoved, virgin). (various references) không bị xúc phạm, không bị xâm phạm (unviolated), không bị vi phạm (unviolated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inlaesum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inviolate": inviolately, inviolateness, inviolatenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Inviolate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alveolata, invoilate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inviolate" (pronounced i'nvī"ulut) |
| 6 | -v ī" u l u t | ultraviolet, Violet. |
| 4 | -u l u t | amulet, consulate, desolate, inarticulate, particulate. |
| 3 | -l u t | anklet, appellate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, copilot, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, immaculate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, wallet, zealot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-o-t-v" | |
-2 letters: elation, invital, olivine, toenail, ventail, violate, violent, volante. | |
-3 letters: alevin, alvine, entail, entoil, eolian, etalon, invite, iolite, latino, levant, native, talion, tenail, tineal, tolane, valine, veinal, venial, vineal, violet, violin, volant. | |
-4 letters: aioli, alien, aline, alive, aloin, alone, anile, anole, anvil, atone, avion, elain, elint, eloin, entia, envoi, inlet, laevo, laten, leant, lento. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: eluviation, levigation, levitation. | |
+2 letters: alleviation, dovetailing, eluviations, inoculative, inventorial, inviolately, levigations, levitations, valediction, ventilation. | |
+3 letters: alleviations, antinovelist, antiviolence, conciliative, derivational, inchoatively, innovatively, intervocalic, levitational, novelization, providential, revalidation, valedictions, velarization, ventilations, vesiculation. | |
+4 letters: antievolution, antinovelists, informatively, interpolative, inventorially, inviolateness, misevaluation, nonvalidities, novelizations, originatively, overinflating, overinflation, pulverization, revalidations, valedictorian, velarizations, ventriloquial, verbalization, vermiculation, vernalization, vesiculations, vibrationless, vivisectional, volcanicities. | |
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