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1751. Chesterf., Lett., xlv. (1774), II. 189. Every paragraph should be so clear, and unambiguous, that the dullest fellow in the world may not be able to mistake it.
1785. Reid, Intell. Powers, II. viii. 273. Malebranche is perfectly clear and unambiguous in this matter.
1799. Han. More, Fem. Educ., II. xiii. 29. We see (and who will deny that we see it frequently?) so many women nobly rising from under all the pressure of a disadvantageous education and a defective system of society, and exhibiting the most unambiguous marks of a vigorous understanding, a correct judgment, and a sterling piety.
1804. Phil. Trans., XCIV. 219. The concise and unambiguous expression of the conditions of a problem in algebraic language.
1883. in Law Times Rep. (1884), 26 April, 273/2. If … that had been intended, the Legislature would have so enacted in express and unambiguous terms.
Hence Unambiguously adv.
1790. G. Walker, Serm., II. xxiii. 164. The promises of the Gospel … do clearly and unambiguously confirm the hope.
1799. Han. More, Fem. Educ., I. xi. 242. Instead of representing to the young Christian that it may be possible by a prudent ingenuity at once to pursue, with equal ardour and success, worldly fame and eternal glory, would it not be more honest to tell him fairly and unambiguously that there are two distinct roads, between which there is a broad boundary line?
1802. Phil. Trans., XCII. 111. The law of the series is truly and unambiguously represented.
1866. J. Martineau, Ess., I. 162. All the physical indications point unambiguously the same way.
