1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 350. I mean the latter end of his real and uncontrovertible reign,… not that imaginary one.
1693. Humours Town, 62. A good Assurance dubs any one an uncontrovertible Critick.
1742. Johnson’s Parliamentary Debates, II. 251. Even the positions … which are laid down as uncontrovertible, are generally false.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., xliv. II. 253. This is a position, uncontrovertible in some points, but in others … much to be doubted.
1818. Bentham, Ch. Eng., Introd. 13. May not then this position be stated as uncontrovertible?
1894. H. Gardener, Unoff. Patriot, 24. The watch words and uncontrovertible basis of belief for the succeeding generation.
Hence Uncontrovertibly adv.
1755. Johnson, Incontestably,… indisputably; uncontrovertibly. Ibid. (1770), False Alarm (ed. 2), 24. It is uncontrovertibly certain, that [etc.].
1818. Bentham, Ch. Eng., p. xli. Shew me … that proposition in Euclid which is more uncontrovertibly demonstrated than is this one.
