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  1. a. Alt. of Inviolated
  2. adj. (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken
  3. adj. must be kept sacred
  4. 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.
  5. s (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken s must be kept sacred