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inviolate
1) not violated, injured, or profaned; 2) untouched, undisturbed
Because of man’s pollution and wastefulness, no part of nature--not the top of the highest mountain or the bottom of the deepest sea--has remained inviolate.
Related English words: inviolable, inviolability, inviolableness, inviolacy, inviolateness
Latin root words: inviolatus, inviolata, inviolatum - unhurt, uninjured; violo, violare, violavi, violatus - to violate, injure, profane
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