violable

[vahy-uh-luh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being violated.

   a violable precept.

Other Word Forms

• violability noun
• violableness noun
• violably adverb
• nonviolability noun
• nonviolable adjective
• nonviolableness noun
• nonviolably adverb
• unviolable adjective
• unviolableness noun
• unviolably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of violable¹

1425–75; late Middle English: destructive < Latin violābilis, equivalent to violā ( re ) to violate + -bilis -ble

Example Sentences

It can be terrifying to envision the mind as porous and malleable, just as it’s alarming to contemplate state sovereignty as fragile and violable.

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Maximilian had too late come to understand that his anointed flesh was violable at all.

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