Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not contested; uncontested.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not contested.
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- adjective Not
contested or challenged.
Etymologies
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Examples
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My Reason for this is plain; -- for as, you see, the Writer of that Reply, has taken upon him to invade this incontested Right of another Man's in
A Political Romance Laurence Sterne 1740
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On September 5, 1660, as an incontested proof of his Majesty's affection for his lordship, he by letters patent advanced him to the honour of earl of Orrery in the county of
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Theophilus Cibber 1730
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When the hour of rest approached, which the lady of the house deferred as long as decently she could, she informed Joseph (whom for the future we shall call Mr Joseph, he having as good a title to that appellation as many others -- I mean that incontested one of good clothes) that she had ordered a bed to be provided for him.
Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730
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