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unconˈtested, ppl. a.
(un-1 8 and 5 b.)
1678Oldham On Wks. B. Jonson x, Poems (1684) 81 Thou thy own Works didst strictly try By known and uncontested Rules of Poetry. 1692Norris Curs. Reflect. 14, I affirm that there are..as uncontested Propositions in Morality as in any other Science. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 45 ⁋2 You seem..to have allowed as an uncontested principle, that marriage is generally unhappy. 1800Misc. Tr. in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 248/1 The Goosaigns maintained an uncontested authority, till the arrival of about 12 or 14,000 Seik horsemen. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 47 A government of which the title was uncontested. 1874Disraeli in Froude Carlyle's Life in Lond. xxxiii. (1884) II. 429, I see only two living names which..stand out in uncontested superiority.
Hence unconˈtestedly adv.
1699T. Baker Refl. Learn. ii. 10 As for the Greek [tongue], which is uncontestedly Learned, most know, how copious it is. 1719J. T. Phillips tr. Thirty-four Confer. 298 These sorts of Beads had been for some thousand Years uncontestedly an efficacious Medecine for Souls. |