imprescriptible
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of imprescriptible
From the Medieval Latin word imprescriptibilis, dating back to 1555–65. See im- 2, prescriptible
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Never has the statement been so clearly made, that the government is the servant, creature and tool of the governed; it is instituted solely "to guarantee to them their natural, imprescriptible rights."
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand
It is limited by no "imprescriptible" right of the individual.
From Liberalism by L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse
This first gift of nature is imprescriptible; and men, even in their delirium, cannot renounce it.”
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
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 Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
The instinctive outburst of maternal love toward the new-born child corresponds to a natural imprescriptible right of the child, for it needs the continual care of its mother.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
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