Definition of "inviolacy" []

• The state or quality of being inviolate. (noun)

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• "Now, upon that the King of the City cried, 'Be the will of Allah achieved, and the inviolacy of Shagpat made manifest!"
• "The old gentleman, whose inviolacy was thus rudely assailed, sat staring at the intruder, his mouth compressed, and three fingers round his glass, which it 'was doubtful whether he was not going to hurl at him."
• "Nor is this all: the tenderness of age is twice blessed, -- blessed in its trophies over the obduracy of encrusting and withering years, blessed because it is tinged with the sanctity of the grave; because it tells us that the heart will blossom even upon the precincts of the tomb, and flatters us with the inviolacy and immortality of love."