Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being deprived.
- Incapable of being taken away.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away.
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Examples
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Nothing can make us not one's father's child however, and the advantages of _blood_, such as they are, may surely be deemed _indeprivable_.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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We will however grow less prejudiced ourselves; and since there are still whole nations of people existing, who consider the counting up many generations back as a felicity not to be exchanged for any other without manifest loss, we may possibly reconcile the opinion to common sense, by reflecting that one preconception of the sovereign good is, that it should certainly be _indeprivable_ and except birth, what is there earthly after all that may not drop, or else be torn from its possessor by accident, folly, force, or malice?
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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