imprescriptible

[im-pri-skrip-tuh-buh l]

adjective Law.

not subject to prescription.

Origin of imprescriptible

From the Medieval Latin word imprescriptibilis, dating back to 1555–65. See im-², prescriptible

Related formsim·pre·scrip·ti·bil·i·ty, nounim·pre·scrip·ti·bly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for imprescriptible

Historical Examples of imprescriptible

It is limited by no "imprescriptible" right of the individual.
Liberalism
L. T. Hobhouse
The right of the journalist is as sacred, as necessary, as imprescriptible, as the right of the legislator.
The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1
Various
This sovereignty is one, indivisible, imprescriptible, and inalienable.
The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III.
Thomas Paine
There is no “imprescriptible right” to either independence or empire.
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
Theodore Lothrop Stoddard
Imprescriptible, im-pre-skrip′ti-bl, adj. not founded on external authority.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
Various

British Dictionary definitions for imprescriptible

imprescriptible

adjective

law immune or exempt from prescription

Derived Formsimprescriptibility, nounimprescriptibly, adverb

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Word Origin and History for imprescriptible

adj.

"inalienable, not subject to prescription," 1560s, French imprescriptible (16c.) or a native formation from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + Latin praescriptus, past participle of praescribere "to write beforehand" (see prescribe). Usually with right. Alternative imprescribable is attested from 1887.