Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not to be separated, given away, or taken away; inalienable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inalienable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inalienable.
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- adjective Not
alienable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word "unalienable," as most grade school students ought to know, appears in the Declaration of Independence.
Bob Cesca: Sarah Palin's Narcissism Feeds Her Constitutional Incompetence Bob Cesca 2011
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The word "unalienable," as most grade school students ought to know, appears in the Declaration of Independence.
Bob Cesca: Sarah Palin's Narcissism Feeds Her Constitutional Incompetence Bob Cesca 2011
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Of course, none of this says anything at all about the fact that coercive governmental institutions are prohibited by something called the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, which in their explicit use of the term unalienable rights systematically bars the initiation of direct (e.g. military conscription) or indirect force (e.g. expropriation) against any other individual.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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The final version of the Declaration uses the word "unalienable."
Top News Digg 2011
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The word "unalienable," as most grade school students ought to know, appears in the Declaration of Independence.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Bob Cesca 2011
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We hold these 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.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
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