a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1618. Barnevelt’s Apol., G 3. The hypothesis makes the proposition of an ungainsayable truth.
1634. Jackson, Creed, VII. iv. § 3. Many matters of fact … of which there can be no ungainsayable proof or demonstration.
1718. Bp. Hutchinson, Witchcraft, 95. A Book that was Ungainsayable.
1890. Gen. Booth, in Daily News, 18 Nov., 6/5. In the first place the facts were ungainsayable.
Hence Ungainsayably adv.
Cf. the earlier UNAGAINSAYABLY.
1637. Declar. Pfaltzgrave’s Faith, 35. Out of which vngainesayably followes, that also wee ought to haue no Images.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. III. (1852), 551. I wish that the ministers … may be as ungainsayably importunate … as Mr. Eliot was.
