Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being imprescriptible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being imprescriptible.
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- noun The quality of being
imprescriptible .
Etymologies
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Compare French imprescriptibilité.
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Examples
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The Declaration of Sentiments denies the right of man to hold property in a brother man, affirms the identity in principle between the African slave trade and American slavery, the imprescriptibility of the rights of the slaves to liberty, the nullity of all laws which run counter to human rights, and the grand doctrine of civil and political equality in the Republic, regardless of race and complexional differences.
William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889
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