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Definition of Incontestable

1. Adjective. Incapable of being contested or disputed.

2. Adjective. Not open to question; obviously true. "Indisputable evidence of a witness"

Definition of Incontestable

1. a. Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts.

Definition of Incontestable

1. Adjective. Not contestable; indisputable; certain; incontrovertible. ¹

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Definition of Incontestable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incontestable

inconspicuous inconspicuously inconspicuousness inconstance inconstancies inconstancy inconstant inconstantly inconstaunt inconstruable

inconsumable inconsumably inconsumptible incontestabilities incontestability incontestable (current term) incontestableness incontestably incontested incontestibility

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Literary usage of Incontestable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of the Law of Insurance by William Reynolds Vance (1904)
"The incontestable clause, now so popular in life insurance contracts, is an anomaly in contract law, and the decisions of the courts in determining its ..."

2. Briefs on the Law of Insurance by Roger William Cooley, Lawrence Vold (1905)
"A clause which has become very popular and general in life insurance is one making the policy incontestable, usually after the lapse of a certain period ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"But the hour of this science had not yet come, and, in spite of positive results and incontestable cures, magnetism did not recover its vogue; ..."

4. The Question of Our Speech: The Lesson of Balzac; Two Lectures by Henry James (1905)
"... you see, are incontestable; yet though you are daughters, fortunate in many respects, of great commonwealths that have been able to render you many ..."

5. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"... Provinces this incontestable right ? At the moment in which they were united ; and from that lime Philip II. was the rebel. What a great man was William ..."

6. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"Voilà peut-être la maxime la plus incontestable de la politique."—Ibid. p. 215. Linguet ought to have known better, even though he lived before the age of ..."

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