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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
They are written in no constitution, in no law, but they are inscribed in ineffaceable letters in the great book of Nature and are imprescriptible.
From Anarchism and Socialism by Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich
If property is a natural, absolute, imprescriptible, and inalienable right, why, in all ages, has there been so much speculation as to its origin?—for this is one of its distinguishing characteristics.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
The right of the journalist is as sacred, as necessary, as imprescriptible, as the right of the legislator.
From The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Pearson, Paul M. (Paul Martin)
These à priori gentry would find it very difficult to draw any advantage from their imprescriptible rights, except in a state of tolerable civil government.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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 of oppression.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man by Conway, Moncure Daniel
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
