a. rare. [f. CONTEST + -LESS; cf. resistless.] Not to be contested, indisputable.

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1749.  A. Hill, Merope, IV. ii.

          Eum.  Modest sense
Of my unequal worth compell’d some doubting;
But now, ’tis truth contestless [= F. sans conteste].

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1866.  Iliad, XXIII. 892, in Homer & the Iliad, III. 397.

        Then be this prize contestless thine, and take it frank and free;
And let the strong long-shadowed spear be Merion’s meed, if thee
This order pleases.

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1912.  C. A. Smith, Star-treader, etc., 90.

                  Small solace did they take
From that frore radiance glistering on the dull
Black desert gripped in iron silences,
Like a false triumph o’er contestless fates,
Or a mirage of life in wastes of Death.

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1920.  R. Bennett, After the Day, 65.

        Contestless, ruined, insensate
Was Creation;
Without our strange posterity—
And impotent, and cold.

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