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
But the authority of religion, and especially of the papacy, was thrown on the side that denied the indefeasible title of kings.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
The right is indefeasible and cannot be divested by contract with the owner or landlord or even by letting the occupier’s sporting rights to another.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.