inviolability

English

Etymology

From Middle French inviolabilité, from Latin inviolabilitas.

Noun

inviolability (countable and uncountable, plural inviolabilities)

1. The quality or state of being inviolable; inviolableness.
   • 2025 January 22, Editorial Board, “Of mercy and grievance”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     Presidential acts of forgiveness in America seldom rattle confidence in the integrity of the judicial system or the inviolability of the rule of law.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inviolability”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “inviolability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.