inabrogableadj.
/ɪnˈabrəɡəbl/, U.S. /ᵻnˈæbrəɡəb(ə)l/ Not abrogable; that cannot be revoked or repealed.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adjective] > not capable of revocation
stable1297
undefeasible1461
unrevocable1464
irrevocable1490
incoverable1526
irrecoverable1540
unrepealable1574
uncancellable1606
unrecallable1611
inabrogable1617
unretractable1624
irreversible1629
unalterable1631
irrepealable1633
indeposable1673
irreclaimable1834
irretractable1880
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3 Their authoritie is inabrogable.
a1663 N. Bramhall Controv. Sabbath in Wks. (1676) IV. 932 All men acknowledge that the Law of nature is immutable, indipensible, inabrogable, except a few paradoxical innovators.
1875 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera V. 210 When once its main laws are agreed upon, they must be inabrogable.
1881 Bibliotheca Sacra 38 541 He also speaks of..that ‘righteousness’ as ‘eternal’, which implies that the moral law is eternal and inabrogable.
1923 A. J. Feldman Relig. in Action 92 The product of supernatural revelation, it speaks with finality, and is in itself unchangeable, inabrogable.
2005 M. J. Broyde in J. Witte & E. Ellison Covenant Marriage in Compar. Perspective 58 There was little notion in this Talmudic period of marriage as an inabrogable covenant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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