All 5 Uses
contradict
in
Jane Eyre
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- Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another.†
p. 232.4 *contradicted = disagreed
- Now act as you please: write and contradict my assertion — expose my falsehood as soon as you like.†
p. 275.8contradict = disagree
- that kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile — when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders — even then I restrained myself: I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance;†
p. 353.3contradictory = in disagreement
- You hear now how I contradict myself.†
p. 409.9contradict = disagree
- "But where is the use of going on," I asked, "when you are probably preparing some iron blow of contradiction, or forging a fresh chain to fetter your heart?"†
p. 430.3contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
Definitions:
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(1)
(contradict) disagreein 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."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)