Crossword clues for alienable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alienable \Al"ien*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. ali['e]nable.] Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s; see alien (adj.) + -able. Related: Alienability.
Wiktionary
a. Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
WordNet
adj. transferable to another owner [ant: inalienable]
Usage examples of "alienable".
But the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness has never been questioned since it was proclaimed as a new gospel for the New World.
If the proclamation had been that happiness is a common right of the race, alienable or otherwise, that all men are or may be happy, history and tradition might have interfered to raise a doubt whether even the new form of government could so change the ethical condition.
If it came at all, it was only to come after strenuous pursuit, that being the inalienable right.
The pitiful part of this inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness is, however, that most men interpret it to mean the pursuit of wealth, and strive for that always, postponing being happy until they get a fortune, and if they are lucky in that, find at the end that the happiness has somehow eluded them, that.
And what an advance in our situation it would be if we could get it into our heads here in this land of inalienable rights that the world would turn round just the same if we stood still and waited for the daily coming of our Lord!
Society being the result of a compact made by men, it followed that the partners could at any time remake it, their sovereignty being inalienable.