unquestionableadj.n.

1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. i. 73 We make this our..vnquestionable maximie, against the which there is no disputing.

1603 S. Daniel Def. Ryme in Panegyrike (new ed.) sig. G3 The Generall Custome, and vse of Ryme..hauing beene so long..held vnquestionable.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §93. 353 The Crowne..by just and unquestionable title descended on her.

1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. vii. 349 The Learned Professor..renders it unquestionable that Moses..was the Author.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §150. 176 The contrary being held an unquestionable Truth.

1782 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 225 Authentic facts, and unquestionable evidence.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xvii. 126 The rope was of the most unquestionable thickness.

1850 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace (1877) III. v. iii. 226 The evil was unquestionable.

1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine xxi. 453 This is one of the unquestionable antiquities, the fountain of Elisha.

1912 Times 19 Feb. 5/3 It is unquestionable that Count Aehrenthal's main and constant object was to secure for his country a footing of equality with the other Great Powers.

1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air ii. viii. 150 You couldn't go on regarding society as something eternal and unquestionable, like a pyramid. You knew it was just a balls-up.

1979 J. Hunt in O. Davies Omni Bk. Paranormal & Mind iv. xvi. 167 With respect to the yeti, I now believe the evidence, from many observers, is unquestionable.

2001 Oxoniensia 65 445 This artefact is of unquestionable archaeological significance.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxx. 403 The Lorde liveth, the Lorde hath spoken, the Lorde is his name, and such like preambles to manie sentences of scripture, are most effectuall motiues of perswasion, and giue vs vnquestionable assuraunce of whatsoever therein set downe.

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xviii. 131 Attested by the experience of divers unquestionable witnesses.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) i. 29 For what summ the Keepers of the Bank are unquestionable Security.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 91 [It] would be incredible, were it not attested by the most unquestionable authors.

1899 Polit. Sci. Q. 14 581 A central reserve bank, whose credit is unquestionable, is..enabled to meet the demand for money by issuing its notes.

2012 J. M. Carvalho in G. A. Scott Does Socrates have Method? xv. 272 The poet and the god at Delphi..are believed to be an unquestionable source for what it is true to believe about questions concerning the correct conduct of life.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 231 The love of God and our neighbour, those Evangelical unquestionables.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 1/3 One of the unquestionables is, that the German Government cannot dare to challenge the hostility of Russia.

1962 J. B. Anderson Stud. Empirical Philos. xvi. 184 It is this rationalism..that is the mark of the scientist who is not a philosopher, who instead presumes to teach the philosophers..his own rationalism, his own devotion to ultimates and unquestionables.

1980 D. O. Hebb Ess. on Mind x. 148 The layman also has his unquestionables, although there is not the same unanimity in the lay world about which ones they are.

2004 L. Zuidervaart Artistic Truth v. 111 Capital, technology, and science have become ‘unquestionables’ in Western society.

1815 Irish Mag. Feb. 80/1 How disgusting then to O'Connor's manes must be..those unfounded vaunts respecting the ‘profundity of his knowledge, the unquestionability of his authority, the independence of his fortune,’ &c. panegyrics which his grandsons thus fulsomely heap on him.

1971 Polit. Sci. Q. 86 34 Unfortunately, his treatment of sources that I can check on..does not inspire confidence in the unquestionability of his accuracy and reliability.

2000 T. Frymer-Kensky Stud. Bible & Feminist Crit. xxv. 378 The written word has no more unquestionability than the priests who teach it, the prophets who proclaim it, or the state authorities who enforce it.

1640 G. Abbot Whole Bk. Iob Paraphr. sig. A6^v God himselfe secondeth him with a large expression of his owne transcendent greatnesse in wisedome and power beyond Jobs capacity, consequently shewing him his presumption and folly, and his owne unquestionablenesse in all his workes.

1747 A. Le Moine Treat. Miracles 127 The Greatness and Unquestionableness of our Saviour's Miracles.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life iii. viii. 112 The modern linguist can never fence himself behind that stately unquestionableness which shields the Classical scholar.

1926 Jrnl. Philos. 23 457 Behind all pleas for the recognition of the relativity of moral standards, lurks always some assumption about the unquestionableness of human good.

1996 P. W. Gooch Refl. Jesus & Socrates vi. 290 Surely it's only the echo of love's futile hope, unwilling to acknowledge the finality, the nullity, the unquestionableness of death.