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uncontroˈvertible, a.
(un-1 7 and 5 b.)
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 350, I mean the latter end of his real and uncontrovertible reign,..not that imaginary one. 1693Humours Town 62 A good Assurance dubs any one an uncontrovertible Critick. 1742Johnson's Parliamentary Debates II. 251 Even the positions..which are laid down as uncontrovertible, are generally false. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. xliv. II. 253 This is a position, uncontrovertible in some points, but in others..much to be doubted. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng. Introd. 13 May not then this position be stated as uncontrovertible? 1894H. H. Gardener Unoff. Patriot 24 The watchwords and uncontrovertible basis of belief for the succeeding generation.
Hence uncontroˈvertibly adv.
1755Johnson, Incontestably,..indisputably; uncontrovertibly. 1770― False Alarm (ed. 2) 24 It is uncontrovertibly certain, that [etc.]. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng. p. xli, Shew me..that proposition in Euclid which is more uncontrovertibly demonstrated than is this one. |