imprescriptibleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French imprescriptible, corresponding to im- +‎ prescriptible.

形容詞

imprescriptible (comparative more imprescriptible, superlative most imprescriptible)

1. Not subject to self-restraint: absolute, inalienable.

   Synonym: imprescribable

   • 1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, II.4:

     Freedom is, indeed, the natural and imprescriptible right of man […] .

   • 1922, Carl Becker, The Declaration of Independence, page 205:

     its part is to exhibit the historical circumstances under which the colonists as a 'free people,' had thrust upon them the high obligation of defending the imprescriptible rights of all men.

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