Unanswerably

adv. [UN-¹ 11.]

  1.  In a manner not capable of being answered or refuted; irrefutably.

1584.  Fenner, Def. Ministers (1587), 107. But vnto this we haue answered unanswerably.

1624.  Gataker, Transubst., 68. So plainely and unanswerably doe they teach the literal understanding of our Saviours words.

1679.  Marg. Mason, Tickler Tickled, 6. This was certainly and unanswerably a knowledge sufficient of the persons.

1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 195, ¶ 6. I have unanswerably proved, that Jointures and Settlements are the Bane of Happiness.

1782.  Mme. D’Arblay, Lett., May. All you say about the annuity and the money appears to me unanswerably right.

1802.  Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), I. 14/2. Errors that have been so frequently, and so unanswerably exposed.

1884.  Ld. Coleridge, in Law Times Rep., 2 Aug., 694/2. The judgment … interprets the statute quite rightly and unanswerably.

  2.  Unconformably, unsuitably.

1656.  Baxter, Reformed Pastor (1862), 209. [To] deliver the message of God so … unanswerably to its dignity, and the need of men’s souls.