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前置詞句

out of question

1. (obsolete) Unquestionably, without question, certainly.
   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
     Though, I confess, much like the character
     But out of question, ’tis Maria's hand.

   • 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book I, page 17:

     And out of question the cherfull help that may be in mariage toward sanctity of life, is the purest and so the noblest end of that contract […]

   • 1772, Richard Hurd, letter addressed to Edward Gibbon dated 29 August, 1772, in Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, London: A. Strahan et al., p. 462,^[1]

     […] the lustre of his hero’s fame, and the real power, which, out of question, he reserved to himself, would make us forget or overlook Cyaxares.

2. (obsolete) Unquestionable, beyond question, certain.
   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter 2, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], OCLC 37026674, 2nd book, §. 6, page 242:

     Of King Vaphres and Necho it is out of question, that neither of them was the great King Sesostris.