A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Unviolat(e, p.p. Also: unviolatt, wnviolat, unviolated. [e.m.E. unviolate (a1548), vnuiolated (1555); Violat v.] a. Of an agreement, state of affairs, etc.: Unbroken; not interfered with, infringed or violated. b. Of a religious rite: Unprophaned.a. 1533 Boece 51a.
Our weill … we sall haue mare eselie gif we … obserue lelelie … the aith of fidelite vnviolate or brokin 1535 Stewart 60723.
To brek that band … So lang befoir wnviolat had bene 1567 Reg. Privy C. I 542.
The rychttis and rentis with all just privilegis of the croun of Scotland I sall preserve and keip unviolat 1569–70 Treas. Acc. XII 199.
That thai … keip peax and amitie betuix the realmeis unviolatt be thame 1572–3 Reg. Privy C. II 182.
To keip the said assurance unviolat in ony poynt 1596 Dalr. I 150/10.
Thair libertie, quhilke hithirto had beine frie and vnuiolat 1600 Misc. Maitl. C. III 105.
That thay obserue and keip the haill tyme of the parliament vnviolatb. 1596 Dalr. II 428/9.
Al the messis tha pas throw vnuiolated
