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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inalienably.

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  • adverb Alternative spelling of inalienably.

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Examples

  • Germany, as you know, all lands that, are not fiefs are equally divided among all the children, which ruins those families; but all male fiefs of the empire descend unalienably to the next male heir, which preserves those families.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • The house which the worthy goldsmith inhabited, had in former times belonged to a powerful and wealthy baronial family, which, during the reign of Henry VIII., terminated in a dowager lady, very wealthy, very devout, and most unalienably attached to the Catholic faith.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • This present moment, short as it is, is a part of eternity, and the dearest part, since it is our own unalienably.

    The Last Man 2003

  • In the commons, Pitt asserted that the rupture of the negociations was wholly due to the directory, who demanded, not as an ultimatum, but as a preliminary, to retain all territories of which the war had given them possession; and respecting which they had thought proper to pass a decree, annexing them unalienably to the republic.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • They are strictly and unalienably the property of the Almighty, whose servants and stewards the parents and the public are.

    A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall

  • But the prepossessions of Flora were unalienably engaged in favour of the exiled Stuarts; and they were not, perhaps, the less likely to glow from being necessarily suppressed.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

  • I assured you that I was unmarried, and had no prospect of entering into matrimonial engagements; this is indeed the fact: but it is also true that my affections -- my first, my earliest affections were engaged, unalienably engaged, to an object which is now no more.

    Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

  • To give him the greater weight, he was created a landgrave of the colony, to which dignity forty-eight thousand acres of land were unalienably annexed: but to his mortification he soon found, that the proprietary government had acquired but little firmness and stability, and, by his imprudence and rigour, fell into still greater disrespect and contempt.

    An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

  • He never gave to man individual, isolated, natural rights, unalienably in his keeping.

    Slavery Ordained of God 1839

  • This excursion, unpleasant as it was, discovered to Rosetta two most important secrets: she felt that her own heart was unalienably attached to Lilburne, and she saw that

    The Castle of Tynemouth. A Tale 1830

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