All 4 Uses
contradict
in
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
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- But the plate-glass window contradicted him.†
Chpt 1 *contradicted = disagreed
- "Hagar, don't contradict your mama," Reba whispered.†
Chpt 2contradict = disagree
- Just as the father brimmed with contradictory feelings as he crept along the wall—humiliation, anger, and a grudging feeling of pride in his son—so the son felt his own contradictions.†
Chpt 3contradictory = in disagreement
- Just as the father brimmed with contradictory feelings as he crept along the wall—humiliation, anger, and a grudging feeling of pride in his son—so the son felt his own contradictions.†
Chpt 3contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts 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)