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

He is charged by the non-conformist with being “very charitable” to these votaries of an indefeasible right of monarchy, and his project of “meeting them half-way” startled the English protestant.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Their moral worth,—nay, moral grandeur,—their great natural parts, their statesmanly ability, their eloquence, their heroic fidelity to their people,—by these each has won indefeasible title to the best of renown.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin