Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inalienability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.
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- noun The quality or state of being
inalienable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Measures of preventive poor-relief were the decisions of the Law concerning the division of the land among the tribes and families, the inalienableness of landed property, the Sabbath and Jubilee year, usury, the gathering of grapes and corn, the third tithe, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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When Hobbes says that "to the laws which the sovereign maketh, the sovereign is not subject, for if he were subject to the civil laws he were subject to himself, which were not subjection but freedom," his notion of sovereignty is exactly that expressed by Rousseau in his unexplained dogma of the inalienableness of sovereignty.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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