indefeasible

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The real danger is not openness to other cultures or sensitivity to difference but a lack of appreciation for universal values and a taste for extreme, empirically indefeasible ideologies.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2018

The people “have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge—I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers,” said our second president, John Adams.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2015

The Cordillera del Condor and the rest of our territories are inalienable, indefeasible, and we state our decision to defend them to the end.”

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

Let us, however, observe that this advocate of the people’s supremacy over their sovereign’s was himself the vowed slave to passive obedience, and the indefeasible and absolute rule of the sacerdotal suzerain.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Hence the Church has ever clung with a tenacity of grasp, which shallow hearts could ill understand, to this central idea, the indefeasible wedlock of heaven and earth in the God-man.

From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.