Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to alter; unchangeable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unalterable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That cannot be
altered .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not capable of being changed or altered
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the American system, however, it is expect that Congressmen are to vote at least partially on their own volition; the expectation of individual accountability lends itself to external persuasion, as the vote of the individual is not considered to be inalterable from the party position.
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The text of the Copyright Clause, the Court observed, contains no "command that a time prescription, once set, becomes forever 'fixed' or 'inalterable,' " and the Court declined to infer any such command.
Christina Gagnier: SCOTUS Adds More Fuel to the Copyright Debate With Golan V. Holder Christina Gagnier 2012
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This makes him useless to the lobbyist; why lobby someone who has no choice to vote a particular way already and whose vote is inalterable?
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But a full-on castigation of "other politicians" and "voters," collectively bound as an inalterable, selfish mass, would be a fairly new frontier of cynicism for Salter.
Mark Salter Caught Up In 'O' Speculation Jason Linkins 2011
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But a full-on castigation of "other politicians" and "voters," collectively bound as an inalterable, selfish mass, would be a fairly new frontier of cynicism for Salter.
Mark Salter Caught Up In 'O' Speculation Jason Linkins 2011
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The text of the Copyright Clause, the Court observed, contains no "command that a time prescription, once set, becomes forever 'fixed' or 'inalterable,' " and the Court declined to infer any such command.
Christina Gagnier: SCOTUS Adds More Fuel to the Copyright Debate With Golan V. Holder Christina Gagnier 2012
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A wyrd or fate is not an inalterable future, so much as a part of the present we have not yet experienced.
she sewed my new blue jeans gregvaneekhout 2009
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The text of the Copyright Clause, the Court observed, contains no "command that a time prescription, once set, becomes forever 'fixed' or 'inalterable,' " and the Court declined to infer any such command.
Christina Gagnier: SCOTUS Adds More Fuel to the Copyright Debate With Golan V. Holder Christina Gagnier 2012
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Fundamental to the protection the religion clauses provides is the idea that religion, to the religious, is a fundamental characteristic of self, as inalterable as gender or skin color.
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But a full-on castigation of "other politicians" and "voters," collectively bound as an inalterable, selfish mass, would be a fairly new frontier of cynicism for Salter.
Mark Salter Caught Up In 'O' Speculation Jason Linkins 2011
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