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unconˈtestable, a.
(un-1 7 b and 5 b.)
1681Whole Duty Nations 13 Religion..being a most uncontestable duty and obligation in those lesser Kingdoms, Families. 1714Swift Pres. St. Aff. Wks. 1755 II. i. 217, I must therefore lay it down as an uncontestable truth. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Vegetation, As to what is said concerning the heat of the Sun, it is uncontestable. 1826Westm. Rev. Oct. 483 The arrangement, which Mr. Humphreys, and with uncontestable reason, proposes. 1831Ld. Palmerston in Westm. Rev. July (1855) 60 note, The will of a sovereign whose rights are uncontestable.
Hence unconˈtestably adv.
1709(title), An Exact Narrative of the many Surprizing Matters of Fact uncontestably wrought by an Evil Spirit. 1740–1Johnson's Parliamentary Debates (1787) I. 201 That where this maxim is not..adhered to, rights and liberties are empty sounds, is uncontestably evident. |