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Inviolate

Definition: Inviolate

Inviolate

Adjective

1. (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: Inviolate

Synonyms: intact (adj), inviolable (adj), sacrosanct (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Inviolate

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Inviolate

English words defined with "inviolate": Inviolacy, Inviolaness, Inviolately. (references)
Specialty definitions using "inviolate": City HallIron MaskSylphs. (references)
Etymologies containing "inviolate": inviolable. (references)

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Historic Usage: Inviolate

AuthorDateQuotation

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.

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Speeches: Inviolate

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Madison

1809-1817In 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

1877-1881But 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.

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Usage Frequency: Inviolate

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)88.89%2471,196
Lexical Verb (base form)11.11%3202,518
                    Total100.00%27N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Inviolate

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "inviolate": egg-inviolate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Inviolate

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

inviolate

9

in inviolate realm roman

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Inviolate

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

   

Portuguese

  

inviolado (unbroken), não devassado. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

virgin (immaculate, pure, virgin, virginal), nestrãbãtut (unknown), necãlcat de om. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неоскверненный, ненарушенный, не нарушенный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nepovređen (unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unscathed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inviolado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

orörd (intact, integral, undisturbed, virgin), okränkt, oantastad (unimpeded). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

незайманий (chaste, untapped, wild, zoned), непорушений (uninterrupted, unmoved, virgin). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không bị xúc phạm, không bị xâm phạm (unviolated), không bị vi phạm (unviolated). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Inviolate

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

inlaesum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Inviolate

Derivations

Words beginning with "inviolate": inviolately, inviolateness, inviolatenesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Inviolate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alveolata, invoilate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Inviolate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "inviolate" (pronounced i'nvī"ulut)
6-v ī" u l u tultraviolet, Violet.
4-u l u tamulet, consulate, desolate, inarticulate, particulate.
3-l u tanklet, 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.

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Anagrams: Inviolate

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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