inalienable
adjective
not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied; not alienable.
inalienability
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a word derived from
inalienable.
Example Sentences
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The same inalienability concern applies to anti-vote-betting laws.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Born into the stifling oppression of the Soviet imperium, Christo — whose full name was Christo Vladimirov Javacheff — always had one core guiding idea: the inalienability of freedom.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
However, the constitutional doctrine of privacy did not then, and does not today, secure anything close to the inalienability Chisholm desired.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2012
The rules, so often repeated because so frequently broken, respecting the inalienability of Church property, were to be specially watched, and also the celebration, as prescribed, of yearly synods.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
This reasoning was reinforced by an appeal to the theory of State sovereignty, which was held to involve the corollary of the inalienability of all the principal powers of a State.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin
