sacrosanct

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Safe and secure
airworthiness
as safe as housesidiom
biosafety
bite
clear of something
harmlessness
have/lead a sheltered lifeidiom
health and safety
impregnable
impregnably
out of danger
potable
protected
roadworthy
safe
unassailed
unbruised
unthreatening
untouchable
well kept

Examples of inviolate

inviolate
In this century, however, such criticisms have been quelled by the enormous prestige of standard modern logic, which is considered inviolate.
Our hope is evident in that word: to be kept inviolate in spite of the worst that life can do to us.
Consequently, the 'production boundary' is their inviolate criterion for determining whether the accounts should include particular items.
From a functionalist perspective, the expression of negation is fundamental to the clause and may be considered inviolate.
Yet unlike other formalisms, camp does not assume a stable, inviolate observing subject.
Implicit here is the assumption that the self, under normal conditions, is inviolate, and the agency of its integrity is the immune system.
Fundamental to pluralism of this sort was not only the possibility of consumer choice, but also the theorisation of an inviolate private sphere for all citizens.
Natural budgets were inviolate balances.
For them, the bivalence principle is inviolate.
Secrecy establishes the oppositions of public-private, inside-outside, subjectobject and works to keep the sanctity of the first term inviolate.
In spite of this, the impact of the neo-liberal rhetoric of independence and the image of a personal pension as an inviolate ' pot of gold ' was a persuasive one.
We do not see why these organisations should be self-perpetuating and inviolate and enshrined in statute.
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