unˈquestionably, a.
[un-1 11, 5 b.]
Without or beyond question; indisputably, indubitably.
Chiefly in loose construction, qualifying the clause or sentence, as in (a).
| (a) 1644 Vicars God in Mount 167 Such a Magistrate un⁓questionably is this present Lord Major. 1661 Cowley Cromwell Wks. (1906) 365 It was bold unquestionably for a man..so outragiously to murder his Master. 1756 Keysler's Trav. I. 18 Europe is unquestionably not a little indebted to him. 1800 Asiat. Ann. Reg., Char. 7/2 Unquestionably a person of great prudence. 1884 F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sci. viii. 228 Newton's investigations were unquestionably pursued..in reliance on the truth of the uniformity of nature. |
| (b) 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. xi. ii. §100 Wherein they conceived themselves to be before unquestionably estated. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. 360 It might be made unquestionably evident. 1736 Butler Anal. i. vii, How unquestionably little..the pleasures and profits of it are at the best. 1740 Cibber Apol. 318 Whose Repentance I have been unquestionably inform'd, appear'd [etc.]. 1846 Huxley in Life (1900) I. 28 It is an unquestionably dull day. 1894 Illingworth Personality iii. 60 Man finds the world outside him to be intensely, unquestionably real. |