Adjective: imprescriptible
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more imprescriptible |
| Superlative | most imprescriptible |
Sample Sentences
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Freedom is, indeed, the natural and imprescriptible right of man […]. [1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, II.4:]
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its part is to exhibit the historical circumstances under which the colonists as a 'free people,' had thrust upon them the high obligation of defending the imprescriptible rights of all men. [1922, Carl Becker, The Declaration of Independence, page 205:]
Adjectives inflected like imprescriptible
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French imprescriptible, corresponding to im- + prescriptible.