All 4 Uses
paradox
in
What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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- Many Americans in Thomas Jefferson's time felt acutely the paradox of fighting for liberty while holding other people in slavery.†
p. 50.7 *
- There was no shortage of Yankees in 1861 to point out the same paradox in Confederate professions.†
p. 50.7
- But Confederate soldiers, unlike many of their forebears of 1776, seemed unconscious of the paradox.†
p. 50.9
- There is a ready explanation for this evident paradox.†
p. 54.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(paradox) a situation or statement that seems to contradict itself but may still be true
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, paradox may refer to a statement that contradicts itself -- such as "I always lie."