Definition of Contradictions

1. Noun. (plural of contradiction) ¹

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Definition of Contradictions

1. contradiction [n] - See also: contradiction

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contradictions

contradances
contradancing
contradanza
contradanzas
contradict
contradictable
contradicted
contradictedness
contradicter
contradicters
contradicting
contradiction
contradiction in terms
contradictional
contradictionless
contradictions
contradictions in terms
contradictious
contradictiously
contradictiousness
contradictive
contradictor
contradictories
contradictorily
contradictoriness
contradictors
contradictory
contradicts
contradirectional
contradistinct

Literary usage of Contradictions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1841)
"The contradictions which are alleged to exist in the Scriptures, may be referred to ... seeming contradictions in historical passages—in chronology—between ..."

2. A Beginner's History of Philosophy by Herbert Ernest Cushman (1911)
"The Contradictions of Experience. All the conceptions of practical life are self-contradictory and are therefore vicious. This applies not only to the ..."

3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"creation, and contradictions of our later morality, in the Creator. ... Why, then, if similar contradictions occur in the beliefs of “men in a rudimentary ..."

4. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"CHAPTER V. Contradictions TS THE GENERAL FORMULA OF CAPITAL. THE form which circulation takes when money becomes capital, is opposed to all the laws we have ..."

5. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"Due to the intensification of contradictions within the Army moving together, down the same road, we see that the present Minister of Defense, ..."

6. A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education by Helvétius (1810)
"In this question, regard is had only to that small difference in organization, which nature has made among men endowed with all their senses. Contradictions ..."

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