inalienable

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It is inalienable, and can neither be bought, nor sold, nor given away.

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  1. adjective That cannot be transferred to another or others: inalienable rights.

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  • It rubbed against the grain of all her principles—namely the inalienable right of every individual to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap­piness In the early hours she'd recognized how much easier it would be if she could approach the Trevelyans' detective agency as a concerned citizen who'd spotted a similarity between Cill and a woman living in Sandbanks. —  Disordered Minds
  • That government should be based on popular consent and secure the "inalienable" rights of man, among which he included the pursuit of happiness rather than property, that it should be a means to human well-being and not an end in itself, he steadfastly believed. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Hilariously, none of them can pronounce the word "inalienable," especially the justice who reminds me of Arianna Huffington. —  Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News
  • Not "inalienable by man, but not by God," but just plain "inalienable." —  The Nation: Top Stories
  • Attorney General Jerry Brown, while arguing that Prop 8 is not an improper revision, advanced a novel legal theory that the measure should still be invalidated because Starr verbally testified to the court it allegedly infringes on the "inalienable" right of same-sex couples to liberty. —  American Chronicle
 

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  1. = French inaliénable = Spanish inalienable = Portuguese inalienavel = Italian inalienabile; as in- + alienable.
 

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/ɪnˈeɪlyɛnəbl/
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