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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inviolate \In*vi"o*late\, Inviolated \In*vi"o*la'ted\, adjective [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) 2.0 [wn]:
inviolate
adjective
1: (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact, virginal" [syn: {intact}]
2: must be kept sacred [syn: {inviolable}, {sacrosanct}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "inviolate": Christian, abiding, awesome, awful, blameless, bright, changeless, clean, constant, continuing, creditable, decent, divine, durable, enduring, erect, estimable, ethical, fair, faultless, firm, fixed, flawless, fresh, frozen, full of integrity, good, harmless, heavenly, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, holy, honest, honorable, immaculate, immobile, immutable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, intact, inviolable, irreproachable, just, lasting, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, mint, moral, noble, numinous, perfect, permanent, perpetual, persistent, principled, pristine, pure, quiescent, religious, remaining, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, rigid, sacred, sacrosanct, scatheless, solid, spiritual, spotless, stable, stainless, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, sterling, sustained, torpid, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unaltered, unblemished, unbroken, unbruised, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled, undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, unfaded, unfading, unfailing, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, unimpeachable, uninjured, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unshifting, unspeakable, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, untorn, untouchable, untouched, unutterable, unvaried, unvarying, unwithered, unworn, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, venerable, virgin, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly
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