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)

"Indeed, you surprise me a little," I replied: "I should have thought that the rights of a legitimate monarch would have been in your opinion indefeasible."

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton