Inviolable

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

November 17

inviolable audio pron   \in-VYE-uh-luh-bul\

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Definition
adjective
1 :
secure from violation or profanation
2 :
secure from assault or trespass : unassailable

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Examples
The senator agreed to an interview on the basis of a set of clear andinviolable rules about what she would and would not answer.
“Perhaps M Train represents the attempt by someone whose career is as public as can be imagined to stake out a zone of inviolable privacy, albeit through the public act of writing a book meant for publication.” — Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2015
Addition by me .I looked up the word origin which is here
inviolable
Origin
late Middle English: from French, or from Latin inviolabilis, from in- ‘not’ + violabilis ‘able to be violated’ (from the verb violare ).

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