单词 | natural right |
释义 | natural rightn. A right considered to be inherent or inalienable, esp. in connection with the individual's relationship to the state and to society. Cf. human rights n. at human adj. and n. Compounds 1b. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > right or moral entitlement > native mother-right?a1607 birthrighta1643 natural right1647 1647 A. Cowley Spring in Mistress v You did their Natural Rights invade. 1689 tr. B. de Spinoza Treat. Theol. Polit. xvi. 343 In Democratical Government, no man so transfers his own Natural Right to another, as for ever after to be excluded from consultation, but only transfers it upon the major part of the Society, of which he still makes one. 1730 B. Franklin Praise for William Penn 14 Aug. in Writings (1987) 190 That generous Charter..in securing to all its Inhabitants the natural Right Liberty of Conscience,..his Benevolence to Mankind. 1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 12 The grant of God Almighty; who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please. 1791 T. Paine Rights of Man 111 The end of all political associations, is, the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 2 Nov. 1/3 The reasons which justify a surrender of natural right, do not apply in the case of the rights of conscience. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xvii. 284 Now, sir, if the fugitive alight in some distant town, and find all the people babbling about that self-same dead man,..will you not allow that his natural rights have been infringed? 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady I. x. 105 [Her eye] rested without impudence or defiance, but as if in conscientious exercise of a natural right, upon every object it happened to encounter. 1925 A. D. Lindsay Karl Marx's Capital iii. 61 Theories of natural right are always to this extent misleading—that they are statements of ideals which pretend to be statements of fact. 2001 Independent on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 10 June The natural rights argument says plainly that, since I make it, so I should own it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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