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imprescriptible

[ im-pri-skrip-tuh-buhl ]

adjective

Law.
  1. not subject to prescription.


imprescriptible

/ ˌɪɪˈɪəə /

adjective

  1. law immune or exempt from prescription
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈپ, adverb
  • ˌˌپˈٲ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • p·t·i·ٲ noun
  • p·t· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of imprescriptible1

From the Medieval Latin word imprescriptibilis, dating back to 1555–65. See im- 2, prescriptible
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Example Sentences

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They are mostly mute on Strauss’ early dalliance with fascism, such as in a 1933 letter where he endorses “the principles of the Right — fascist, authoritarian imperial and not the pathetic and laughable imprescriptible rights of man.”

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At present, the Constitution says: “The state recognizes the family as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.”

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“In France, the national collections are the inalienable and imprescriptible property of the state,” Mr. Le Fur wrote in an email.

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At a time when the Inquisition was declining and falling into contempt, he boldly insisted on its most extreme prerogatives as an imprescriptible privilege.

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Lawyers disputed, however, as to the perpetuity of the prohibition to build on the spot, some holding that possession by a Catholic for forty years conferred a right to erect a new house, which others denied, arguing that a perpetual and imprescriptible servitude had been created.

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