unviolate

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ violate (adjective), after Latin inviolātus.[1]

Adjective

unviolate (comparative more unviolate, superlative most unviolate)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of inviolate.
    • 1683, Thomas Beverley, The Principles of Protestant Truth and Peace (page 24)
      The retaining their Honour untouch'd, unviolate by any creature, and presenting to the Honour of Christianity a Supremacy unprostitute, is the true Glory done by Christian Princes to Christianity.

References

  1. ^ “unviolate, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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