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incontestable, a.|ɪnkənˈtɛstəb(ə)l|
(Also erroneously -ible.)
[a. F. incontestable (= Sp. incontestable, It. incontestabile), f. in- (in-3) + contestable contestable.]
That cannot be contested or disputed; indisputable, unquestionable, incontrovertible.
1673Temple Let. to Dk. Florence Wks. 1731 II. 287 Your Judgment is with me incontestable. 1748Anson's Voy. i. iii. 33 This alone would be..an incontestible proof of the service, which the Nation hath thence received. 1825Scott Betrothed i, Her beauty was incontestable. 1885Sir J. W. Chitty in Law Rep. 29 Chanc. Div. 992, I hold that the evidence is altogether incontestible.
Hence inconˈtestableness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Incontestibleness. 1864Webster, Incontestableness. 1895Blackw. Mag. July 171 One instance..exceeds all others in definition and incontestableness. |