All 3 Uses
contradict
in
Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
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- The contradiction is not peculiar to Lincoln; Anglo-Saxon history is full of it.†
Subsection 3 *contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- These efforts, together with his strategy of appealing to abolitionists and Negrophobes at once, involved him in embarrassing contradictions.†
Subsection 4contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- They argued that it was self-contradictory to fight the war without smashing slavery and with it the South's entire social structure.†
Subsection 6contradictory = in disagreement
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)