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

There was a day when, as Chatham himself would have contended, the regulation of trade was an indefeasible right of the Crown.

From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by Morison, J. L. (John Lyle)

It merely wished to be able to show, in case of need, its indefeasible title to real land, at Llanyglo or anywhere else, but the further from civilisation the better.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver