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indefeasible, a.|ɪndɪˈfiːzɪb(ə)l|
Forms: 6 indiffeasable, 6–7 indefecible, 7–8 -feasable, -feisible, 8 -feazable, -fiezable, 7– indefeasible.
[f. in-3 + defeasible; cf. It. indeffessibile (Florio).]
Not defeasible; not liable to be ‘defeated’, made void, or done away with; that cannot be forfeited.
1548Ld. Somerset Epist. Scots A v in Compl. Scot. (1872) App. iii. 239 By mariage..one bloude..is made of two, and an indefecible right geuen of bothe to one, without the destruction and abolishing of either. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. viii. ii. §8 All those things are utterly void, they make him no indefeasible estate, the inheritor by blood may dispossess him. 1661–98South 12 Serm. III. 18 He, who gives a Being..has an Indefeasible claim to whatsoever the said Being so Given..either is, or has, or can Possibly do. 1670Blount Law Dict. s.v., A good and indefeisible estate. 1735–8Bolingbroke On Parties 101 If it be not proved to be something more than human, it will hardly be proved indefiezable. 1859Mill Liberty i. 19 The great writers..have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xii. 414 Beauty is the true province of the Greeks, their indefeasible domain.
Hence indefeasiˈbility, indeˈfeasibleness, the quality or character of being indefeasible.
1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 2 The indefeasableness of the succession seems to be a natural consequence of its being a lineal one. 1828Webster s.v., The indefeasibility of a title. 1843Mill Logic iii. v. §1 There are very few [uniformities] which have any, even apparent, pretension to this rigorous indefeasibility. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 332/2 There are limits to this indefeasibility of title. |