inalienable
not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied; not alienable: inalienable rights, freedoms, and liberties; an inalienable territory; inalienable principles and values.
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Other words from inalienable
- in·al·ien·a·bil·i·ty, in·al·ien·a·ble·ness, noun
- in·al·ien·a·bly, adverb
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How to use inalienable in a sentence
These are the values articulated in our country’s founding documents addressing the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Your guy has an inalienable right to advance his career not an inch further.
Carolyn Hax: Trying to get a laid-back beau to be more like driven dad | Carolyn Hax | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostThey stem from our existence as individuals endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights.
What Gingrich and Adelson and Santorum Really Mean When They Say the Palestinian People are "Invented" | Peter Beinart | August 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTrying to build a one-state reality in the name of “inalienable rights and realpolitik” is treacherously dishonest.
Another Reason Dani Dayan is Wrong | Elisheva Goldberg, Sahar Segal | August 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIran may propose measures that suit it better, finding a way to compromise even as it asserts its inalienable right to enrichment.
Iran’s Tone Changes in Istanbul: Nuke Talks ‘Constructive and Useful’ | Michael Adler | April 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
We would exercise our right to go anywhere at any time, as inalienable in the modern world as the right to freedom of speech.
Tehran repeatedly points out that peaceful nuclear work is an “inalienable right” in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
God could not endow him with sinlessness, which is an inalienable portion of Divine perfection.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean MeslierPoetry, painting, and the subtle joys of imagination have inalienable rights over a lofty spirit.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket | Honore de BalzacWhy should they use the powers that were their inalienable birthright to make true believers obey a Christian dog?
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. WigramThe Constitution and its guarantees are our birthright, and I am ready to enforce that inalienable right to the last extent.
Key-Notes of American Liberty | VariousWe have just been declaring to the world that all men are born with an inalienable right to liberty.
The Minister's Wooing | Harriet Beecher Stowe
British Dictionary definitions for inalienable
/ (ɪnˈeɪljənəbəl) /
not able to be transferred to another; not alienable: the inalienable rights of the citizen
Derived forms of inalienable
- inalienability or inalienableness, noun
- inalienably, adverb
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