inviolable

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Inviolable sanctuary has been upheld even in hours of international conflict.

From Time Magazine Archive

The leaves, like women, interchange   Sagacious confidence; Somewhat of nods, and somewhat of   Portentous inference, The parties in both cases   Enjoining secrecy, — Inviolable compact   To notoriety.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two by Todd, Mabel Loomis

So the old "Inviolable Constitutions" ordain that "the scholars must not play outside the college, and if they meet any one, they should lower their voices."

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

May the Almighty ever have you and them in his protection yours with the most Inviolable affection Oliver Wolcott.

From The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn by Johnston, Henry P.

Inviolable, in-vī′ōl-a-bl, adj. that cannot be profaned: that cannot be injured.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various