All 4 Uses
contradict
in
Self-Reliance, by Emerson
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- Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat[184] you have stated in this or that public place?†
*contradict = disagree
- Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?†
- Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.†
- Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions, or rather much more readily; for, they do not distinguish between perception and notion.†
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)