Both Uses of
inalienable
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- She had been hoping that Oak might appear, whose assistance in such cases was always accepted as an inalienable right, but Oak was nowhere to be seen; and hence it was that she said, "Then if you will just look in first, to see if there's room, I think I will go in for a minute or two."†
Chpt 49-51
- She was aggrieved and wounded that the possession of hopeless love from Gabriel, which she had grown to regard as her inalienable right for life, should have been withdrawn just at his own pleasure in this way.†
Chpt 55-57 *
Definition:
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(inalienable) not separable -- i.e., not capable of being taken, given, or otherwise transferred away