Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word INDUBITABLE
INDUBITABLE
Definitions of INDUBITABLE
- clearly true; providing no possibility of doubt.
- That which is indubitable.
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11
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No
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Examples of Using INDUBITABLE in a Sentence
- " and that "whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.
- The idea for the term is attributed to Descartes in his second Meditation, who refers to Archimedes requiring only "a point that was firm and immovable," with regard to finding certainty:
Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe from the place it occupied to another, demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so, also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.
- They have pictured with indubitable fidelity the discomforts of an escort vessel's crew—the eternal tossing and rolling of the ship in a moderate sea; her plunging and gyrating in the grip of a North Atlantic gale, with tons of sea water pouring over her, battering and soaking every man.
- The seventeenth-century Maltese historian Giovanni Francesco Abela wrote in his 1647 Della Descrittione di Malta isola nel Mare Siciliano that the ruins of Ħaġar Qim were "indubitable evidence of the fact that the first inhabitants of Malta were of the race of Giants".
- René Descartes, an early proponent of infallibilism, argued, "my reason convinces me that I ought not the less carefully to withhold belief from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from what is manifestly false".
How distressing it is to be unable to send missionaries to Virginia, where there are five hundred thousand Negroes! It is indubitable that had we missionaries and funds to support them, prodigies would be effected in this vast and untilled field.
- Out of her indubitable charm they have created a vexatious, pucker-faced little brat full of sugary day dreams to make an audience wince.
- In a monograph published posthumously, French comparativist Emmanuel Cosquin compared the Basque tale Le Pou with the Turkish Kamer-tag (sic) and concluded, based on the great parallels of both tales, that their relationship was "incontestable" ("indubitable", in the original).
- In any case, the physiognomic similarities between the Ca' Morta chariot and all the other chariots currently identified and catalogued do not constitute direct and indubitable proof of inter-territorial relations.
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