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Unassignable

adjective
1.
Incapable of being transferred.  Synonyms: nontransferable, untransferable.






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"Unassignable" Quotes from Famous Books



... as the concluding link of the whole previous chain of causes and effects. He defines the shapes that bad consequences may assume. The mischief may be primary, as when sustained by a definite number of individuals; or secondary, by extending over a multitude of unassignable individuals. The evil in this last case may be either actual pain, or danger, which is the chance of pain. Thus, a successful robbery affects, primarily, a number of assignable persons, and secondarily, all persons in a like ...
— Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics • Alexander Bain



Words linked to "Unassignable" :   unalienable, inalienable, untransferable, nontransferable



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