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unˈchallengeable, a. (un-1 7 b.)
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. 731/1 Our vulgar Bookes extant can hardly passe with a Iury of ordinary Criticks and Censors for vnchallengeable euidence. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxiii, His title and his paternal fortune, which he thought..might be rendered unchallengeable. 1847Ld. Lindsay Sk. Hist. Chr. Art I. 61 The Byzantines..maintained a pre-eminence, unchallenged and unchallengeable, in the three sister arts. 1880Muirhead Gaius ii. §119 note, A man, whose position as heir under the civil law was unchallenged and unchallengeable. Hence unˈchallengeably adv.
1827Scott Napoleon c. VIII. 330 Annual expositions of national receipt and expenditure..which were, to outward appearance, unchallengeably accurate. 1866F. G. Stephens Eng. Children (1867) 32 This is unchallengeably true. |