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irrefragable i-REF-ruh-guh-buhl adjective beyond dispute or contention 1876Among My Books He has nothing but pity for mankind when it has become a many-headed beast, 'despising the higher intellect irrefragable in reason, the lower which hath the face of experience.' 1911My Tropic Isle Yet that Nature under certain circumstances blandly puts her thumb unto her nose and spreads her fingers out even at that irrefragable postulate, let this plain statement of fact stand proof. Labels: E. J. Banfield, James Russell Lowell
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