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inviolable

/in-vahy-uh-luh-buhl/US // ɪnˈvaɪ ə lə bəl //UK // (ɪnˈvaɪələbəl) //

不可侵犯,不可侵犯的,不容侵犯,不可违背

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise.
    • : incapable of being violated; incorruptible; unassailable: inviolable secrecy.

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Examples

  • If this degree of chaotic improvisation exists within Sochi, just how inviolable is that Ring of Steel around it?

  • In the past year, several tech companies that once seem inviolable have fractured badly—Research in Motion and Nokia most notably.

  • Article 54 of the Kuwaiti constitution stipulates that the emir is “immune and inviolable.”

  • He told me that in business dealings a handshake was inviolable.

  • Take care of what you are about to do, Seor Captain: I belong to the church, and this gown renders me inviolable.

  • Again the brothers glanced at each other with a look which said: "The hotel de Soissons is inviolable."

  • His claim to it could not be maintained by law, but was confirmed by public opinion and by inviolable custom.

  • If there be no law, sacred and inviolable, not created by man, what standard can we find to judge whether an act be just or not?

  • The persons of the tribunes were declared inviolable, and any one who attacked them was thought to be accursed.