Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inclined to contradict; disposed to deny, dispute, or cavil.
- Filled with contradictions; self-opposed; inconsistent.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
- adj. obsolete Inclined to contradict or cavil.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
- adj. obsolete Inclined to contradict or cavil.
Examples
“Francie, who had arrived on his heels, with the contradictious touch which became the free spirit of a daughter of Roger, chimed in:”
“She knew not what to make of her niece, who had suddenly become stern and contradictious.”
“Induction is the more convincing and clear: it is more readily learnt by the use of the senses, and is applicable generally to the mass of men, though reasoning is more forcible and effective against contradictious people.”
“There is nothing so sottish, or foolish, or contradictious in and to itself, as may not be countenanced from teaching parables to be instructive and proving in every parcel or expression that attends them.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
“Thus far, then, we have carried on the sense affixed to these words, if it may so be called, which is evidently contradictious in itself, and in no one particular suited to the mind of the Holy Ghost.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
“Left-handed with him (one who ever was contradictious of Ciaran) they saw a ship foundering in their sight.”
“The parenthesis describing how he "was ever contradictious of Ciaran" is probably a gloss; so far as the incident goes, the contradictiousness is the other way.”
“Nowadays, of actual persecution there is little, because there is little need; because the repression acts, save with the most independent, original and contradictious tempers, upon thought rather than expression.”
“City codes and country customs present some contradictious.”
“But General Gordon had always been a contradictious personeven a little off his head, perhaps, though a hero; and besides, he was no longer there to contradict .”
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