ppl. a. Obs. [UN-1 8 b, 5 b. Cf. next.] = INVIOLATE a.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. V., 39. To thentent that this league and amitee should be kept unviolate.
1570. T. Norton, trans. Nowel’s Catech., 11. Any other matter of great importance, wherein we are … to mainteine vnuiolate the honor of God.
a. 1589. Palfreyman, Baldwin’s Mor. Philos. (1600), 127 b. Common lawes … ought to bee … kept vnuiolate.
1681. Whole Duty Nations, 24. The retaining their Honour untouch’d, unviolate by any creature.
