English
imprescriptible
Imprescriptible comes from Middle French imprescriptible.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600imprescriptible
- Englishearliest quotation 1794same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600imprescriptible
- Englishearliest quotation 1794same form
Earliest quotation: 1794, Mary Wollstonecraft: “Freedom is, indeed, the natural and imprescriptible right of…”
Every English word from Middle French imprescriptible
Today it means
adj Not subject to self-restraint: absolute, inalienable.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French imprescriptible / imprescriptible