contradiction

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  1. noun The act of contradicting.
  2. noun The state of being contradicted.
  3. noun A denial.

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  • From the opening chapters the contradiction is apparent: Ordinamus quod nullus recipiatur in ordine nostro nisi sit talis clericus qui sit competenter instructus in grammatica vel logica; aut nisi sit talis laicus de cujus ingressu esset valde celebris et edificatio in populo et in clero . —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
  • Ya Habibti ya Pisa the contradiction is the point. —  Israel Palestine Blogs
  • Suffice it to say that then, as now, the contradiction was there. —  Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)
  • What once seemed like a contradiction is a reality with the introduction of the high-performance —  SvenOnTech
  • The chief principle that Muslims apply when trying to reconcile a contradiction is the Abrogation Principle, which states that the verse most recently written takes precedence. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. = French contradiction = Spanish contradiccion = Portuguese contradicção = Italian contraddizione, from Latin contradictio(n-), from contradicere, past participle contradictus, speak against: see contradict. L. contradictio(n-) in the strict logical sense was first used by Boëthius to translate Greek ἀντίφασις.
 

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