adjective
- not subject to prescription; not capable of being lost or forfeited by the passage of time or by non-use
- not subject to prescription in the medical sense; not requiring a prescription
Usage: formal; legal/technical
Usage: rare; medical
Examples
- The right to life is considered an imprescriptible human right that cannot be taken away.
- Certain fundamental freedoms are imprescriptible and protected by international law.
- The court ruled that the victim's claim to restitution was imprescriptible despite the passage of years.
- In civil law jurisdictions, some rights are deemed imprescriptible and never expire.
- The imprescriptible nature of human dignity is recognized in many constitutions.