Definitions

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  • adjective Not assignable.

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  • adjective incapable of being transferred

Etymologies

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un- +‎ assignable

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Examples

  • Thirdly I would like to see individual performers granted a ‘moral right’ in their performance that is unassignable and shall last for 95 years; this will be in order to prevent objectionable uses of their material.

    B2fxxx 2009

  • Artists and scientists own unassignable primary copyrights and patents on their creations, inventions and discoveries.

    The Evil of Lesser Idiots: Another Inconvenient Truth 2007

  • People moved everywhere, yet there was only a mild hum of unassignable noise, a blending of typeout machines, human voices, and a steady tremor that seemed everywhere and nowhere, that came from the rock itself.

    Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

  • Gains of large size, it is proposed, may be free of tax if paid to the government, to be held without inter est and in completely unassignable form, to be taxed in the year of withdrawal at the taxpayer's will.

    Tax! Tax! Tax!—The Canadian Tax Scene 1967

  • By what accidental or fortuitous happening the atoms have dropped out of their scientific categories, and the molecules have been advanced to their commanding place in _absolute accidentalness_, is one of those unassignable causes in which they apparently so much delight.

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • As our mental fields succeed one another, each has its centre of interest, around which the objects of which we are less and less attentively conscious fade to a margin so faint that its limits are unassignable.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • The proof is that part of the exorcisms are given in Latin and part in French, by the author of the _Rituel_, for arbitrary and unassignable reasons, and that

    Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899

  • As our mental fields succeed one another, each has its centre of interest, around which the objects of which we are less and less attentively conscious fade to a margin so faint that its limits are unassignable.

    Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

  • The conclusion is legitimate enough in a _formal_ sense, and as establishing a probability of some _unassignable_ degree of value.

    A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871

  • This kind of elimination, in which we do not eliminate any one assignable cause, but the multitude of floating unassignable ones, may be termed the

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

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