indefeasible
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of indefeasible
First recorded in 1540–50; in- 3 + defeasible
Vocabulary lists containing indefeasible
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Example Sentences
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The real danger is not openness to other cultures or sensitivity to difference but a lack of appreciation for universal values and a taste for extreme, empirically indefeasible ideologies.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2018
The people “have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge—I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers,” said our second president, John Adams.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2015
The Cordillera del Condor and the rest of our territories are inalienable, indefeasible, and we state our decision to defend them to the end.”
From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013
The indefeasible right of the mother to her offspring is Indian law, or rather, the contrary notion does not seem to have entered their minds.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Now, sir, I never could understand that indefeasible right.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob
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