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- adjective That cannot be
gainsaid ;irrefutable .
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Examples
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As Thomas Mallon wrote in a 2006 story in The New Yorker, the book acts as βan ungainsayable endorser of the obvious.β
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As Thomas Mallon wrote in a 2006 story in The New Yorker, the book acts as "an ungainsayable endorser of the obvious."
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But men _could_ not and _ought_ not to believe such an assertion unless the claim were supported by ungainsayable evidence.
When the Holy Ghost is Come Col. S. L. Brengle
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Then did I say a few things to all and sundry -- stinging, biting things, ungainsayable and forcible things -- and took possession of all the fish that were left, so the Indians slunk off in sullen silence.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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During the immolation of Dunster the Rev.Mr. Mitchell had made up his mind that he "would have an argument able to remove a mountain" before he would swerve from his orthodoxy; he had since confirmed his faith by preaching "more than half a score ungainsayable sermons" "in defence of this comfortable truth," and he was now prepared to maintain it against all comers.
The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887
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But, if you think that, in these matters, you have done your duty, and taught the people theirs; and that the doctrines cited from the above mentioned book [_Baxter's_] are ungainsayable; I shall conclude in almost his words.
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Charles Wentworth Upham 1838
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As Thomas Mallon wrote in a 2006 story in The New Yorker, the book acts as "an ungainsayable endorser of the obvious."
GoodShit 2010
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Larkin used once in a letter to his mother - over books and music, and those moments of ungainsayable and perhaps unsayable emotion he risks more and more frequently in his later poems, after the self-deflating asperities of the earlier work that made his name.
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And Mr. Mather dispersed Mr. Baxter's book in New England, with the character of it, as a book that was ungainsayable. "
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Charles Wentworth Upham 1838
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