Indefeasibility
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ɪndɪfiËzᵻˈbɪláµ»ti/
Origin
From indefeasible + -ity.
Full definition of indefeasibility
Noun
indefeasibility
(uncountable)- The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated
- 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism Chapter , By this useful accommodation of language, the character of indefeasibility attributed to justice is kept up, and we are saved from the necessity of maintaining that there can be laudable injustice.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 401:Siéyès had realized that this was an argument which only the nobility could win, and so began to edge towards a more functional approach which stressed the indefeasibility of individual rights in nature.