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Contradistinguish

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities. transitive

    "Reason, therefore, here, as contradistinguished to faith, I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas, which it has got by the use of its natural faculties ; viz. by sensation or reflection."

  2. 2
    distinguish by contrasting qualities wordnet

Etymology

From contra- + distinguish.

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