Indefeasible

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indefeasible \In`de*fea`si*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + defeasible:
     cf. OF. indefaisable.]
     Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being
     annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title.
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           That the king had a divine and an indefeasible right to
           the regal power.                         --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indefeasible
       adj : not liable to being annulled or voided or undone; "an
             indefeasible right to freedom"; "an indefeasible claim
             to the title" [ant: {defeasible}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "indefeasible":
     certain, changeless, constant, fated, fateful, immutable,
     inalienable, incommunicable, incommutable, inconvertible,
     ineluctable, inert, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable,
     inexorable, inflexible, insusceptible of change, intransmutable,
     invariable, irresistible, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable,
     lasting, necessary, noble, noncommunicable, noncontagious,
     noninfectious, nonreturnable, nonreversible, permanent, relentless,
     resistless, reverseless, sure, sure as death, sure as fate,
     unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unavoidable, unchangeable,
     unchanged, unchanging, uncontrollable, undeflectable, undeviating,
     unimpartable, unmodifiable, unpreventable, unremitting,
     unrestorable, unreturnable, unstoppable, unsusceptible, unvariable,
     unvarying, unyielding
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INDEFEASIBLE. That which cannot be defeated or undone. This epithet is  
  usually applied to an estate or right which cannot be defeated.