All 4 Uses of
contradict
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- The coachman looked back and the guard looked back, and even the emphatic leader pricked up his ears and looked back, without contradicting.†
Chpt 1.2 *contradicting = disagreeing
- The answers to this question were various and contradictory.†
Chpt 1.3contradictory = in disagreement
- And yet, observing the strange law of contradiction which obtains in all such cases, the time was long, while it flamed by so fast.†
Chpt 3.4contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Miss Pross recalled soon afterwards, and to the end of her life remembered, that as she pressed her hands on Sydney's arm and looked up in his face, imploring him to do no hurt to Solomon, there was a braced purpose in the arm and a kind of inspiration in the eyes, which not only contradicted his light manner, but changed and raised the man.†
Chpt 3.8contradicted = disagreed
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."