All 3 Uses
contradict
in
This I Believe II
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- Essayists can be imagined speaking to one another, their beliefs resonating across the pages, sometimes contradicting, sometimes confirming one another.†
Chpt Intr.contradicting = disagreeing
- The kind that lets you embrace those internal contradictions that make up an entire, oxymoronic, complex, complete human being.†
Chpt 6 *contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- The more I am alone with the Alone, the more I surrender to ambivalence, to happy contradictions and seeming inconsistencies in myself and almost everything else, including God.†
Chpt 60
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)