a. (UN-1 7 b, 5 b.)

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1691.  Sewel, Onontzeggelyk, Vnrefusable, that which will take no denial.

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1704.  Norris, Ideal World, II. i. 37. Upon this fair and unrefusable supposition.

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1843.  Carlyle, Past & Pr., III. xii. The most unrefusable demand!

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1865.  Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, xxvi. Skylie … said this with her most unrefusable expression.

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  Hence Unrefusably adv.

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1710.  Norris, Chr. Prud., iii. 131. Happiness abstractly considered, which is necessarily and unrefusably lovely.

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