inalienable vs unalienable (an independence day special)

inalienable

Definitions

adjective

  1. incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
  2. not subject to forfeiture

Examples

These are the inalienable rights of a young person, though they are too often infringed upon already.

Many travelers feel upgrades are an inalienable right - along with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

He was especially severe in commenting on the "uppishness," (to use a word of modern coinage), of young men under age adopting the slang engendered by the French Revolutionary times, and prating about the rights of man, the inalienable right of resistance to tyranny, and such "bigoty" phrases.

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