unalienable

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inalienable | American Dictionary

inalienable
adjective
us/ɪnˈeɪl·jə·nə·bəl/
unable to be taken away:
The right to survival has to be the first on any list of inalienable rights for every human being.

Examples of inalienable

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A more detailed examination of inalienable possession helps to reveal exactly what is missing.
Finally, each object was coded for whether it referred to something that could be considered an alienable or inalienable possession.
In short, besides being necessary combustibles for the inhalation cure, inalienable possessions are also pledges of their owner's responsibility for scaring the victim.
These include a proto-global consensus with respect to some particularly heinous criminal acts and with respect to some inalienable individual rights.
The effect of inalienable possession shows the highly abstract transfer of substrate features, raising questions about the modularity of grammar.
Second, inalienable possessions are necessary conditions for empathy - one's ability to know, and even experience, the intentional states of others.
It is around these inalienable possessions that the exchange of objects is organized.
Expediency as an inalienable quality of a living being that includes the ability to modify their own form and behaviour.
Examples of how possession is marked differently for inalienable and alienable entities are given in what follows.
An artifact is also independent and other than its maker, even though inalienable.
Without this identification societal life would remain a realm of inalienable, individual liberties, which the sovereign may not touch.
She placed the keeping of inalienable objects, but also immaterial matters like stories, magical sayings and myths, at the heart of the exchange system.
Inalienable possessions are very closely associated with the identity of the group and individual owner: they provide the keeper with a 'cosmological authentication'.
For example, the gain and loss of inalienable possessions is related to the expansion and contraction of personhood.
On the one hand, the history of a group may be seen through the types of inalienable possessions that it holds.
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