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/ənˈeɪliɛnəbəl/ /ənˈeɪljɛnəbəl/ Listen

Unalienable

adjective

Incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another. Synonym: inalienable.

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"Unalienable" Quotes from Famous Books

... In other words, there are certain rights possessed by each individual American citizen which in his compact with the others he has never surrendered. Some of them, indeed, he is unable to surrender, being, in the language of our system, unalienable. The boasted privilege of a Roman citizen was to him a shield only against a petty provincial ruler, whilst the proud democrat of Athens would console himself under a sentence of death for a supposed violation of the national faith—which ...

— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

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... truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, ...

— The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens • Georg Jellinek

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Words linked to "Unalienable" : untransferable, inalienable, nontransferable, unassignable, absolute, intrinsic, infrangible, inviolable, intrinsical, non-negotiable, alienable