All 6 Uses
contradict
in
Silas Marner
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- But whatever blemishes others might discern in William, to his friend's mind he was faultless; for Marner had one of those impressible self-doubting natures which, at an inexperienced age, admire imperativeness and lean on contradiction.†
Chpt 1.1 *contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Yes, there was a sort of refuge which always comes with the prostration of thought under an overpowering passion: it was that expectation of impossibilities, that belief in contradictory images, which is still distinct from madness, because it is capable of being dissipated by the external fact.†
Chpt 1.5contradictory = in disagreement
- The table had been spread with substantial eatables nearly two hours before he presented himself—a tall, stout man of sixty, with a face in which the knit brow and rather hard glance seemed contradicted by the slack and feeble mouth.†
Chpt 1.9contradicted = disagreed
- I suppose, if I'd said you nay, you'd ha' kept on with it; but, for want o' contradiction, you've changed your mind.†
Chpt 1.9contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Even the farrier did not negative this sentiment: on the contrary, he took it up as peculiarly his own, and invited any hardy person present to contradict him.†
Chpt Cncl.contradict = disagree
- But he met with no contradiction; and all differences among the company were merged in a general agreement with Mr. Snell's sentiment, that when a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbours to wish him joy.†
Chpt Cncl.contradiction = 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)