Inalienable Definition

ĭn-ālyə-nə-bəl, -ālē-ə-
adjective
That may not be taken away or transferred.
Inalienable rights.
Webster's New World
Of property, that it cannot be sold or assigned; of rights, that they cannot be abrogated.
Webster's New World Law

(grammar) Of or pertaining to a noun belonging to a special class in which the possessive construction differs from the norm, especially for particular familial relationships and body parts.

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Origin of Inalienable

  • Borrowed around 1645 from French inaliénable, from in- +‎ aliénable (“alienable”).

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Inalienable Sentence Examples

  • All lots in both cases were declared inalienable for thirty years.

  • These peasant plots were all declared inalienable for thirty years.

  • He holds that freedom is the inalienable prerogative of the finite spirit; and this is the second point that distinguishes his theology from the heretical Gnosticism.

  • The effect of the original system was that a vakuf property became the inalienable property of the state, and the original proprietor a mere tenant.

  • It assumes that God has conferred on the individual and on society certain rights and competences as inalienable possessions.

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Words Starting With

IININA

Words Ending With

ELEBLE

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inalienable

Words Starting With I and Ending With E

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With I11 Letter Words Ending With E