A violable rule. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a violable precept. From Dictionary.com.
Sovereignty and individual rights now seemed violable -- Iraq today, your country tomorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Manjari Miller: Call For The Vote] Reference
His hand reaches to touch the mirror, but the surface is liquid, violable, lacking solidity. From Wordnik.com. [Short Fiction: Things Past] Reference
If they replied that it could have hurt thee, they would then have made thee violable and corruptible. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
Helva wondered whether Ansra, having taken a stand, was too hardheaded to retreat, or unable to believe that one of her standing could be violable. From Wordnik.com. [The Ship Who Sang]
Yet conservation programs are viewed as entirely violable. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Hence all marriages that could ever be allowed them would be a mere contract, violable at the master's pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895.] Reference
If he could not be pained by any thing, could not suffer any kind of wound, had no violable sympathy, he would be any thing but a perfect character. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons for the New Life.] Reference
Louis Capet was only called Inviolable by a figure of rhetoric; but at bottom was perfectly violable, triable; that he can, and even should be tried. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Optimality Theory state generalizations in terms of violable constraints that interact with each other, and abandon the traditional rule-based formalism first pioneered by early work in generativist linguistics. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
(adj): vs. violable) -- (incapable of being transgressed or dishonored. From Wordnik.com. [Errata: The Wordie Blog] Reference
Since there is no SPECIFIC harm, just vague theories, there’s no violable restitution to be provided by the Accused to the Complainant. From Wordnik.com. [Brewer’s response to the federal lawsuit] Reference
In every public gathering that ‘Allama Shaykh al-Muhajir addressed in Iraq during the Fatimiyyah majalis, where huge crowds numbering several thousands gathered to listen to him, he called upon the followers of Ahl-ul-Bayt to rise up to their responsibilities and defend the honour of Ahl-ul-Bayt at individual and organisational levels; and not to ignore this serious challenge emanating from the Takfiris that the life, property and honour of the Shi‘as are violable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
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