imprescriptible

Not subject to self-restraint: absolute, inalienable.

Adjective

  1. Not subject to self-restraint: absolute, inalienable.
    • Freedom is, indeed, the natural and imprescriptible right of man […]. - 1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, II.4:
    • 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. - 1922, Carl Becker, The...

    Synonyms: imprescribable

Origin

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

Forms

more imprescriptible most imprescriptible impræscriptible

Derived

imprescriptibly