imprescriptible
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- imprescriptibility noun
- imprescriptibly adverb
Etymology
Origin of imprescriptible
From the Medieval Latin word imprescriptibilis, dating back to 1555–65. See im- 2, prescriptible
Example Sentences
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The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
All the writers mentioned belong, however, to that rather small class whose opinions are worth considering, even if one reserves the imprescriptible right not to agree with all they say.
From The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by Robinson, James Harvey
Among "these natural and imprescriptible rights" the legislator has placed "resistance to oppression."
From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Durand, John
Examples crowd upon us: once the possessions of the church, the estates of the crown, the fiefs of the nobility were inalienable and imprescriptible.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
At a time when the Inquisition was declining and falling into contempt, he boldly insisted on its most extreme prerogatives as an imprescriptible privilege.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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