as in sacred
not to be violated, criticized, or tampered with a person with inviolable moral standards an inviolable trust between lawyer and client

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Recent Examples of inviolable Further, in recent weeks, many universities have demonstrated that norms are not an inviolable constraint on their actions, dispensing with preexisting practices regarding student speech and protest — or even rewriting official rules — so as to discipline Pro-Palestinian advocacy. Eric Levitz, Vox, 15 May 2024 Under the Vienna treaties, embassies and diplomatic premises are considered foreign soil and inviolable. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2024 Only once that is built can the world provide justice to all those who have died and suffered in the war—and reaffirm the prohibition against war as an inviolable rule of the international order. Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2023 Until this Congress, it was considered an inviolable edict that lawmakers never voted against a rule advanced by their party on the House floor — much less in committee. Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for inviolable 

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“Inviolable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inviolable. Accessed 5 Dec. 2024.

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