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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."
- The man who had contradicted him had no titles.p. 26.6
contradicted = disagreed
- Only a week ago a man had contradicted him at a kindred meeting which they held to discuss the next ancestral feast.p. 26.4
contradicted = disagreed
There are no more uses of "contradict" in Things Fall Apart.
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