unalienable vs inalienable

unalienable

Definitions

adjective

  1. incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another

Examples

The ideas of liberty, self-determination, representative government and unalienable fights, spread and took root.

He further expressed this in arguing that each person's unalienable right was to ‘as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens.’

Your angel energy is an unalienable part of you which, even if it is temporarily veiled, can never be taken away from you.

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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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