Imprescriptible

Word IMPRESCRIPTIBLE
Character 15
Hyphenation im pre scrip ti ble
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Imprescriptible"

What do we mean by imprescriptible?

Not subject to prescription: absolute, inalienable.

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The word "imprescriptible" in example sentences

It is limited by no "imprescriptible" right of the individual. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Providence; a vow unalterable and imprescriptible, which unites man in society to his country and his sovereign. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All signatory states shall have the imprescriptible right to waive, wholly or in part, the requirements laid down in the preceding paragraph. ❋ Unknown (1982)

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 ❋ PAUL FORIERS (1968)

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. ❋ PAUL FORIERS (1968)

As a consequence, these rights are inalienable and imprescriptible. ❋ PAUL FORIERS (1968)

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. ❋ Unknown (1952)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Isaac Samuele Reggio (N/A)

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. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)

But M. Zschokke's main argument against the reasonableness and justice of death-punishment is this, that every man has an original imprescriptible right, prior to, and in the face of all society -- _to be ❋ Various (N/A)

These _à priori_ gentry would find it very difficult to draw any advantage from their imprescriptible rights, except in a state of tolerable civil government. ❋ Various (N/A)

So, then, the offender who will not live with his fellow-men on the only terms on which human fellowship can be maintained, is to stand out and bandy logic with the community -- with mankind -- and insist upon his individual imprescriptible rights. ❋ Various (N/A)

Ireneus had been the inheritor of that obstinate will which never deviates from the end it proposes to itself, and of a chivalric worship of the Royal family, which to him seemed by a law divine to be invested with the imprescriptible right to govern France. ❋ Various (N/A)

Husbands who would consider this average as an imprescriptible right would, however, make wrong pretensions, for it is quite possible for a normal man to contain himself much longer, and it is his duty to do so, not only when his wife is ill, but also during menstruation and pregnancy. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The ecclesiological doctrine of the Eastern Church, on the contrary, is very rudimentary; they do not appeal to Rome, and recognize its imprescriptible rights only very rarely and in extreme cases. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The speculative mind, pursuing imprescriptible goods and rights in the sphere of ideas, must needs have become a stranger to the world of sense, and lose sight of matter for the sake of form. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The Parliaments of the seventeenth century regarded the Stuart pretensions, as Henry and Elizabeth did those of the Pope, in the light of usurpations upon their own imprescriptible rights; and more recently, movements to make the ❋ Unknown (1908)

I need not show how inconsistent such a position is with the eternal, imprescriptible right of freedom of speech, and how utterly inconsistent it is with precedents drawn from the history of our British ancestors, where the same liberty of speech has for centuries been enjoyed. ❋ Unknown (1906)

This right of the journalist is as sacred, as necessary, as imprescriptible, as the right of the legislator. ❋ Unknown (1906)

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