All 3 Uses of
contradict
in
A Room of One's Own
- And here is La Bruyère: Les femmes sont extrêmes, elles sont meilleures ou pires que les hommes—— a direct contradiction by keen observers who were contemporary.†
Chpt 2contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- It was impossible to make head or tail of it all, I decided, glancing with envy at the reader next door who was making the neatest abstracts, headed often with an A or a B or a C, while my own notebook rioted with the wildest scribble of contradictory jottings.†
Chpt 2 *contradictory = in disagreement
- You have been contradicting her and making whatever additions and deductions seem good to you.†
Chpt 6contradicting = 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."