unquestioned

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un·ques·tioned

(ŭn-kwĕs′chənd)

adj.

1. Not subjected to questioning; not interrogated.

a. Unquestionable; indisputable.

b. Not called into question or examination; not doubted.

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unquestioned

(ʌnˈkwɛstʃənd)

adj

1. accepted without question

2. not admitting of doubt or question: unquestioned power.

3. not questioned or interrogated

4. rare not examined or investigated

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

un•ques•tioned

(ʌnˈkwɛs tʃənd)

adj.

1. not open to doubt or question; undisputed.

2. not inquired into, investigated, or interrogated.

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Adj.

unquestioned - generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; "the undisputed fact"

unchallenged, undisputed

noncontroversial, uncontroversial - not likely to arouse controversy

Translations

unquestioned

[ʌnˈkwestʃənd] ADJ (= unchallenged) → indiscutido, incontestable

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unquestioned

[ʌnˈkwɛstʃənd] adj

(= undoubted) → indéniable

(= undisputed) → incontesté(e)

(= unquestioning) [support, acceptance] → inconditionnel(le); [belief, obedience] → aveugle

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unquestioned

adj → unbestritten; (= unquestioning) belief, acceptance → bedingungslos; I can’t let that statement pass unquestioned → ich kann diese Behauptung nicht fraglos hinnehmen; to be unquestioned (honesty etc) → außer Frage stehen; (social order etc) → nicht infrage or in Frage gestellt werden

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unquestioned

[ʌnˈkwɛstʃ/ənd] adj (popularity, virtue) → indiscusso/a; (statement) → incontestato/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Next morning, standing in the very place where but a very few months ago the Sphere had stood in my company, I was allowed to begin and to continue my narration unquestioned and uninterrupted.

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Both these pictures were very unpleasant, and even more so was a third picture, of husband and wife and friend; and the married people glancing at each other as though they were content to let something pass unquestioned, being themselves possessed of the deeper truth.

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The whitewashed walls; the little pews where well-known figures entered with a subdued rustling, and where first one well-known voice and then another, pitched in a peculiar key of petition, uttered phrases at once occult and familiar, like the amulet worn on the heart; the pulpit where the minister delivered unquestioned doctrine, and swayed to and fro, and handled the book in a long accustomed manner; the very pauses between the couplets of the hymn, as it was given out, and the recurrent swell of voices in song: these things had been the channel of divine influences to Marner--they were the fostering home of his religious emotions--they were Christianity and God's kingdom upon earth.

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She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English- speaking audiences.

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Thus it came about that they were glad enough to welcome a king who spared their lives, and thenceforth, till his fate found him, Dingaan reigned unquestioned.

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Both displayed great feats of gallantry, nor did either Bois-Guilbert or the Disinherited Knight find in the ranks opposed to them a champion who could be termed their unquestioned match.

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Nor would they have gotten off thus easily had Akut not been more concerned with the condition of the wounded Korak than with the fate of the girl upon whom he had always looked as more or less of an interloper and an unquestioned burden.

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He had been a dator, or prince, until Issus had degraded him, so that his fitness for the high office bestowed was unquestioned.

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At that portion of the ancient wall of Solomon's Temple which is called the Jew's Place of Wailing, and where the Hebrews assemble every Friday to kiss the venerated stones and weep over the fallen greatness of Zion, any one can see a part of the unquestioned and undisputed Temple of Solomon, the same consisting of three or four stones lying one upon the other, each of which is about twice as long as a seven-octave piano, and about as thick as such a piano is high.

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It was the only available place where he might seek to hide from the approaching company, and while he had passed several sentries unquestioned he could scarce hope to escape scrutiny and questioning from a patrol, as he naturally assumed this body of men to be.

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The younger man gave place; and both passing in with a familiar air, which seemed to denote that they were tarrying there, or were well-accustomed to go to and fro unquestioned, shut it behind them.

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After this termination of the scene, Duncan wandered among the lodges, unquestioned and unnoticed, endeavoring to find some trace of her in whose behalf he incurred the risk he ran.

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