All 7 Uses of
contradict
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Contradiction.†
Chpt 1contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Do I contradict myself?†
Chpt 1 *contradict = disagree
- Very well then, I contradict myself.†
Chpt 1
- —That is oratory, the professor said uncontradicted.†
Chpt 7uncontradicted = not disagreed withstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncontradicted means not and reverses the meaning of contradicted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- L. Bloom, who met with a mixed reception of applause and hisses, having espoused the negative the vocalist chairman brought the discussion to a close, in response to repeated requests and hearty plaudits from all parts of a bumper house, by a remarkably noteworthy rendering of the immortal Thomas Osborne Davis' evergreen verses (happily too familiar to need recalling here) A nation once again in the execution of which the veteran patriot champion may be said without fear of contradiction to have fairly excelled himself.†
Chpt 12contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Yet Eve and the serpent contradicts.†
Chpt 15contradicts = disagrees
- half a stone of potatoes the day we met Mrs Joe Gallaher at the trottingmatches and she pretended not to see us in her trap with Friery the solicitor we werent grand enough till I gave her 2 damn fine cracks across the ear for herself take that now for answering me like that and that for your impudence she had me that exasperated of course contradicting I was badtempered too because how was it there was a weed in the tea or I didnt sleep the night before cheese I ate was it and I told her over and over again not to leave knives crossed like that because she has nobody to command her as she said herself well if he doesnt correct her faith I will that was the last time she turned on the tear†
Chpt 18contradicting = disagreeing
Definition:
disagree
in various senses, including:
- to say something is not true -- as in "She contradicted his testimony."
- to say something else is true when both can't be true -- as in "I don't believe her. She contradicted herself as she told us what happened."
- to be in conflict with -- as in "Her assertions contradict accepted scientific principles."