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Contradict
Definitions
- 1 To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).
"His testimony contradicts hers."
- 2 prove negative; show to be false wordnet
- 3 To oppose (a person) by denying the truth or pertinence of a given statement.
"Everything he says contradicts me."
- 4 be resistant to wordnet
- 5 To be contrary to (something).
"Now no truth can contradict any truth; desirous therefore they were to be taught, how bothe might stand together, that which they knew could not be false, because Christ spake it; and this which to them did seeme true, onely because the Scribes had said it."
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- 6 deny the truth of wordnet
- 7 To say things that conflict with each other. reflexive
"The prime minister contradicted herself during her speech."
- 8 be in contradiction with wordnet
- 9 To give an order contrary to (another order or wish), oppose (something). obsolete
"[…] when was the hour I ever contradicted your desire, Or made it not mine too?"
- 10 To give an order contrary to one given by (another person), oppose or resist (someone). obsolete
"Beseemes it thee to contradict thy king? […] I will haue Gaueston, and you shall know, What danger tis to stand against your king."
- 11 To speak against; to forbid. obsolete
"[…] magic hath been publicly professed in former times, in Salamanca, Cracovia, and other places, though after censured by several universities, and now generally contradicted, though practised by some still […]."
Etymology
Derived from Latin contrādictus (“contradicted”), the past participle of contrādīcō (“speak against”) (originally two words).
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