Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Contradistinction.
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Examples
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He would find out what needs, which the alderman supplies, are legitimate ones which the city itself could undertake, in counter-distinction to those which pander to the lower instincts of the constituency.
Democracy and Social Ethics Jane Addams 1897
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On its side, the Mountain appears, in counter-distinction to the royalist conspiracy, as the representative of the "Republic."
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850
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Today it has earned a counter-distinction: Rowan has been hit harder by the recession than virtually any other place in the United States.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed SONIA VERMA 2011
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Today it has earned a counter-distinction: Rowan has been hit harder by the recession than virtually any other place in the United States.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed SONIA VERMA 2011
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