All 12 Uses
contradict
in
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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- His father asked how could the commentator have offered such an interpretation when in another passage in the Talmud he had said exactly the opposite, and Danny, very quietly, calmly, his fingers still playing with the rim of the paper plate, found a difference between the contradictory statements by quoting two other sources where one of the statements appeared in a somewhat different context, thereby nullifying the contradiction.†
Chpt 2.7contradictory = in disagreement
- His father asked how could the commentator have offered such an interpretation when in another passage in the Talmud he had said exactly the opposite, and Danny, very quietly, calmly, his fingers still playing with the rim of the paper plate, found a difference between the contradictory statements by quoting two other sources where one of the statements appeared in a somewhat different context, thereby nullifying the contradiction.†
Chpt 2.7contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Danny repeated a short passage from the tractate Sanhedrin, and then his father quoted another passage from Yoma which contradicted the passage in Sanhedrin, and Danny answered with a passage from Gittin which dissolved the contradiction.†
Chpt 2.7contradicted = disagreed
- Danny repeated a short passage from the tractate Sanhedrin, and then his father quoted another passage from Yoma which contradicted the passage in Sanhedrin, and Danny answered with a passage from Gittin which dissolved the contradiction.†
Chpt 2.7contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- There is no contradiction.†
Chpt 2.7
- I had this time been able to retain hold of the chain of the argument—probably because there was no tension now—and so when Reb Saunders cited and explained a passage that seemed to contradict a point that had just been made by Danny, I suddenly found myself on the field of combat, offering an interpretation of the passage in support of Danny.†
Chpt 2.8contradict = disagree
- I saw allusions in passages that Danny and his father overlooked, and I resolved a contradiction with an appeal to grammar.†
Chpt 2.8contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Danny and I were soon involved in a heated discussion concerning two contradictory commentaries on the same passage, and Reb Saunders sat back quietly and listened.†
Chpt 2.8contradictory = in disagreement
- Instead, I heard him sigh a little, then offer a passage from the Baba Bathra that contradicted Danny's explanation.†
Chpt 2.10 *contradicted = disagreed
- Freud contradicted everything I had ever learned.†
Chpt 2.12
- This second Mishnah flatly contradicted the first.†
Chpt 3.14
- I explained the Mishnah carefully, showed why there was a contradiction, then read from the commentaries of Rashi and the Tosafists, both of which are printed on the same page as the Talmud text.†
Chpt 3.14contradiction = 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)