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Definition of Nonproven
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonproven
Literary usage of Nonproven
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oil and Gas Rights on the Public Domain and on Private Lands: Discovery and by Robert Stewart Morrison, Emilio Dominguez De Soto (1920)
"PERMIT AND LEASE ON nonproven GROUND. The Act divides oil and gas lands at the
... The procedure on the nonproven ground is by permit followed by lease. ..."
2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1901)
"... the decision of an infallible pope, and papal infallibility appeared a nonproven
and suspicious doctrine, Anthony's ' explicit belief was at an end. ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1882)
"We accept it, there, because we are satisfied that its existence is proved ; we
decline it here, because we consider it ' nonproven ' or disproved. ..."
4. A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures to Manchester College on the by William James (1909)
"... Royce's, and Bradley's proofs of the absolute (which absolute I consequently
held to be nonproven ..."
5. Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language by Richard Grant White (1870)
"... as well say that Mary loven John as that John's love for Mary was nonproven.
'Rut get is, in the words of the grammars, an irregular verb; that is, ..."
6. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1876)
"Matter he regards as non-existent, or nonproven, a mere conjecture; we are
acquainted only with force. All that can be affirmed of matter is that there are ..."
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