Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not founded on prescription; existing independently of law or convention; not justly to be violated or taken away. Also
imprescribable .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription; -- of rights.
- adjective Not derived from, or dependent on, external authority; self-evidencing; obvious.
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- adjective Not subject to
prescription :absolute ,inalienable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is limited by no "imprescriptible" right of the individual.
Liberalism 1896
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Providence; a vow unalterable and imprescriptible, which unites man in society to his country and his sovereign.
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All signatory states shall have the imprescriptible right to waive, wholly or in part, the requirements laid down in the preceding paragraph.
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Inalienable, be - cause if these rights would be given up, man would cease to be a person and become a case of alienation; imprescriptible, because if these rights ceased to exist
Dictionary of the History of Ideas PAUL FORIERS 1968
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Recall that this Declaration proclaimed that the aim of every political association is “the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man,” liberty, property, security, and the right of resistance to oppression.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas PAUL FORIERS 1968
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As a consequence, these rights are inalienable and imprescriptible.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas PAUL FORIERS 1968
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To my mind, such false notion of right explains the emancipation of many modern democracies relative to the rights of God and the imprescriptible rights of the human person.
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We shall stumble on from one vague proposition to another, till we find ourselves landed in the revolutionary doctrine of the equal imprescriptible rights of man.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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And, lastly, to the same category of measures belongs the decreed long servitude of the Abrahamites in a strange land, in which, not only the door to social enjoyments would be shut against them, but a barbarous tyranny would also deprive them of the free exercise of acts which are an imprescriptible right of all mortals.
A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth Isaac Samuele Reggio
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It could not have legislated otherwise without doing violence to another great principle of our institutions -- the imprescriptible right of equality of the several States.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
vanishedone commented on the word imprescriptible
'Bentham's life-long opposition to the language of natural law and natural rights followed from the distinction between real and ficitious entities, and led to the famous remark in "Anarchical Fallacies" that the doctrine of natural rights in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1791 was "simple nonsense" and that of natural and imprescriptible rights, "nonsense upon stilts".'
(F. Rosen, intoduction to Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, O.U.P., p. xxxv)
November 2, 2008