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Imprescriptible   Listen
adjective
Imprescriptible  adj.  
1.
Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription; of rights. "The right of navigation, fishing, and others that may be exercised on the sea, belonging to the right of mere ability, are imprescriptible."
2.
Not derived from, or dependent on, external authority; self-evidencing; obvious. "The imprescriptible laws of the pure reason."






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"Imprescriptible" Quotes from Famous Books



... quelquefois peche par quelque exces, c'est par la bienveillance pour les oeuvres de ceux qui pensent autrement que moi.—MONOD, R. Hist. xvi. 184. Nous n'avons nul interet a faire parler l'histoire en faveur de nos propres opinions. C'est son droit imprescriptible que le narrateur reproduise tous les faits sans aucune reticence et range toutes les evolutions dans leur ordre naturel. Notre recit restera completement en dehors des preoccupations de la dogmatique ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton



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