Both Uses
contradict
in
Things Fall Apart
(Edited)
- Only a week ago a man had contradicted him at a kindred meeting which they held to discuss the next ancestral feast.
p. 26.4contradicted = disagreed
- The man who had contradicted him had no titles.
p. 26.6 *
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)