irrefragable

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  1. adjective Impossible to refute or controvert; indisputable: irrefragable evidence.

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  • The evidence of language is irrefragable, and it is the only evidence worth listening to with regard to ante-historical periods. —  Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
  • And round their feet he threw golden fetters, irrefragable, indissoluble, that they might there steadily await their king returning, but he departed towards the army of the Greeks Footnote 412: So I have ventured to render Nonius Marcell. —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
  • No man's philosophy was ever moulded in a nobler cast than his; it was founded in the school of Christianity, which was, that all men are by nature equal; that they are wisely and justly endowed by their Creator with certain rights which are irrefragable, and no matter how human pride and avarice may depress and debase, still God is the author of good to man; and of evil, man is the artificer to himself and to his species. —  Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)
  • Some men may possibly, by locality or privileges, be excepted from certain taxes, but no taxation ever can be just that is thrown upon some particular class only; and if that class happen to be small and the demand great, the injustice done is directly proportionable to the greatness of the exaction, and inversely to the number of the persons who are the objects of it: these are clear, irrefragable, and eternal principles. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
  • "If, on producing your proof, I find it irrefragable, and can proceed in this matter without carrying it to court, or bringing in additional counsel--that is, if I can manage it all myself, which I doubt, I will be silent. —  May Brooke
 

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  1. Late Latin irrefrāgābilis : Latin in-, not; see in-1 + Latin refrāgārī, to oppose, resist; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French irréfragable = Spanish irrefragable = Portuguese irrefragavel = Italian inrefragabile, irrefragabile, from Late Latin irrefragabilis, inrefragabilis, irrefragable: see refragable.
 

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