1681. Whole Duty Nations, 13. Religion … being a most uncontestable duty and obligation in those lesser Kingdoms, Families.
1714. Swift, Pres. St. Aff., Wks. 1755, II. I. 217. I must therefore lay it down as an uncontestable truth.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Vegetation, As to what is said concerning the heat of the Sun, it is uncontestable.
1826. Westm. Rev., Oct., 483. The arrangement, which Mr. Humphreys, and with uncontestable reason, proposes.
1831. Ld. Palmerston, in Westm. Rev., July (1855), 60, note. The will of a sovereign whose rights are uncontestable.
Hence Uncontestably adv.
1709. (title) An Exact Narrative of the many Surprizing Matters of Fact uncontestably wrought by an Evil Spirit.
1740–1. Johnson’s Parliamentary Debates (1787), I. 201. That where this maxim is not … adhered to, rights and liberties are empty sounds, is uncontestably evident.
