All 7 Uses of
contradict
in
The Idiot
- I don't contradict myself.†
Chpt 1.7contradict = disagree
- True, certain rumours did reach his friends, but these were both strange and rare, and each one contradicted the last.†
Chpt 2.1 *contradicted = disagreed
- This was contradicted, and the rumour circulated that it was a young merchant who had come into the enormous fortune and married the great ballet dancer, and that at the wedding the drunken young fool had burned seventy thousand roubles at a candle out of pure bravado.†
Chpt 2.1
- There were rumours current as to Gania, too; but circumstances soon contradicted these.†
Chpt 2.1
- Besides that, I have made myself a promise not to alter a single word of what I write in this paper, even though I find that I am contradicting myself every five lines.†
Chpt 3.5contradicting = disagreeing
- But, besides the above, we are cognizant of certain other undoubted facts, which puzzle us a good deal because they seem flatly to contradict the foregoing.†
Chpt 4.9contradict = disagree
- He did not contradict his clever and eloquent counsel, who argued that the brain fever, or inflammation of the brain, was the cause of the crime; clearly proving that this malady had existed long before the murder was perpetrated, and had been brought on by the sufferings of the accused.†
Chpt 4.12
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."