Consecrated vs Inviolate - What's the difference?
consecrated | inviolate |
(consecrate)
To declare, or otherwise make something holy.
* 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, based on the signed "Bliss Copy"
Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
* Francis Bacon
Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
Incorruptible.
As a verb consecrated
is (consecrate).As an adjective inviolate is
not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.consecrated
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Verb
(head)consecrate
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Verb
(consecrat)- But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate', we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have ' consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
Synonyms
* * * (l)Antonyms
* desecrate * defileAdjective
(en adjective)- They were assembled in that consecrate place.
inviolate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- His fortune of arms was still inviolate . — Francis Bacon.
- Inviolate truth. — Denham.
- There chaste Alceste lives inviolate . — Spenser.