indefeasible
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˌɪndɪˈfiːzəbl/
- Formal
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indefendible
- Once the title deed was issued, it became an indefeasible proof of ownership for the land.
Examples
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The OASI Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program is in no sense a federally administered "insurance program" under which each worker pays premiums over the years and acquires at retirement an indefeasible right to receive for life a fixed monthly benefit, irrespective of the conditions which Congress has chosen to impose from time to time.
Blog text (12) -
" Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right... and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers."
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This is the indefeasible connection between the right to property, understood as the comprehensive political right, and human rights.
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Government founded on a moral theory, he says, on the indefeasible hereditary rights of man that is now revolving from West to East.
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Under public purpose standards, use is only conditional; private property has been abolished in the sense that private property is no longer held as an indefeasible individual right.
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In this first case, the fundamental drive for self-preservation is the only motive that can trump the otherwise indefeasible appetites of our tawdry protagonist.
Academic text (2017) -
Professor Horwitz reminds us that each Justice "faces an indefeasible obligation to reflect on what the judicial office and judicial duty demand and to follow that vision faithfully."
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Under the Sabah Land Ordinance, a native who can establish customary tenure acquires an indefeasible, or nonforfeitable, interest in the land that is not dependent on the possession of a documentary title.
Academic text (2011) -
We also license fiber network facilities through indefeasible rights of use agreements or other similar long-term licensing or leasing arrangements (collectively "IRUs") from other CLECs and cable companies.
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The contract provided an indefeasible right to the property that could not be challenged in court.
Synonyms
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6.0
Not able to be changed back to how it was
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8.1
Impossible to change or undo
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4.0
You cannot make it different
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8.8
Cannot be ended or broken, for example a marriage
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7.4
Not able to be changed later
You cannot stop or change it after you agree
No one can change it
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
indefeasible = defeasible (semi-transparent) = in + defeasible
The negation 'in-' + 'defeasible' yields the literal 'not able to be annulled', which is morphologically clear, but 'defeasible' is a rare/legal term and may be unfamiliar to many learners.
Etymology
Indefeasible is made of the part in- meaning 'not' and a root that once meant 'to undo', the same idea you can see in the word defeat. So something indefeasible cannot be made void or taken away and cannot be undone.