Literary notes about unimpeachable (AI summary)
The term “unimpeachable” is used in literature to denote a quality that is beyond doubt or reproach—a state of absolute reliability or integrity. In some works, it describes the unquestionable value or security of an object or situation, as seen when a loan’s collateral is deemed unimpeachable ([1]) or later when a trustworthy thermometer is characterized in the same light ([2]). In character assessments, authors employ the term to affirm moral and ethical fortitude, illustrating figures whose honesty and principles are irrefutable, such as in Dickens’ portrayal of his protagonist ([3]) and in the depiction of public officials’ integrity ([4]). Meanwhile, in evidentiary or scientific contexts, unimpeachable witnesses or data are cited to support undisputed claims ([5], [6], [7]). This varied usage underscores a common literary ambition: to portray assertions, individuals, or evidence as inherently beyond criticism.
- One of our most lucrative means of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security is unimpeachable.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - Except the clock, there was not such an accurate and unimpeachable instrument in existence as the little thermometer which hung behind the door.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - I am the man as is guaranteed, by unimpeachable references, to be a out-and-outer in morals and uprightness of principle.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - He held many offices of public trust in the discharge of which he was able and unimpeachable in his honesty.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States by George T. Flom - All this would be proved by unimpeachable witnesses.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner - A philosophy may be unimpeachable in other respects, but either of two defects will be fatal to its universal acceptance.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - In short, the notion that real contingency and ambiguity may be features of the real world is a perfectly unimpeachable hypothesis.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
