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The word "indubitable" has been deployed in literature as a marker of undeniable truth or clarity about a fact, observation, or perception. In many texts—from Freud’s observation that unpleasant impressions can be readily forgotten [1] to Jane Austen’s commentary on social judgments in Emma [2]—the term underscores an assertion that leaves little room for debate. Its use spans both scientific and literary discourse, where it often qualifies evidence as self-evident, such as in discussions of observable phenomena in sociology and criminal psychology [3, 4, 5]. Additionally, the word appears in the works of authors like Carlyle, Hawthorne, and Dickens, where it not only lends an air of certainty to historical events or character traits [6, 7, 8] but also subtly conveys the persuasive power of ostensibly irrefutable details, as seen in Jefferson’s foundational document [9].
  1. That unpleasant impressions are easily forgotten is an indubitable fact.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  2. That Frank Churchill thought less of her than he had done, was indubitable.
    — from Emma by Jane Austen
  3. Their existence is indubitable to any impartial observer.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  4. Here are facts which are indubitable and unexplained.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  5. Again, it is indubitable that the movement of the body seems quicker when we observe it with a fixed glance than when we follow it with our eyes.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  6. It is strange; secret as the Mysteries; but it is indubitable.
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  7. "Yes," I replied, "my right to that appellation is indubitable.
    — from Mosses from an old manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  8. An indubitable token of life!
    — from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
  9. We shall call it "the facts" to emphasise its indubitable reality, and avoid, as far as possible, any other implications.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson

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