Both Uses
contradict
in
My Name is Legion
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- Try to imagine the conflicts, the contradictions involved in being four people at once ...†
Part 3 *contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- If the Hangman did, it would have to have resolved all the contradictions and conflicts, to have mastered and understood the situation so thoroughly that I do not believe whatever remained could involve that sort of hatred.†
Part 3
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)