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US
/ˌɪˈneɪɫjənəbəɫ/
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[ UK /ɪnˈeɪliənəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ɪnˈeɪliənəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights -
not subject to forfeiture
an unforfeitable right
How To Use inalienable In A Sentence
- 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. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
- Childbirth might seem to be the last inalienable right of any female citizen within a civilized society.
- The era of the inclusive, inalienable character of British subject status was over.
- Religious freedom is an inalienable right of humanity in my opinion and working toward a N.A.T.O. imposed law governing this principal would seem a huge step forward.
- The restoration of the inalienable, indivisible allod and of the federal rights of the peasant, as in olden times, would have been far more to the purpose. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
- He said Moscow supported and will support what he described as the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to an independent state with its capital in east Jerusalem. Russian President Visits West Bank
- They deny children their basic inalienable human rights, and then they deny that there have been any breaches of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- CHIEF JUSTICE ROY MOORE, ALABAMA SUPREME COURT: The question is, can the federal courts come into the state of Alabama and threaten fines to release our inalienable rights? CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2003