Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclined to contradict; disposed to deny, dispute, or cavil.
- Filled with contradictions; self-opposed; inconsistent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
- adjective obsolete Inclined to contradict or cavil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Filled with
contradictions ;inconsistent . - adjective obsolete Inclined to
contradict orcavil .
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Examples
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Francie, who had arrived on his heels, with the contradictious touch which became the free spirit of a daughter of Roger, chimed in:
In Chancery 2004
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She knew not what to make of her niece, who had suddenly become stern and contradictious.
Washington Square 2003
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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.
Topics 2002
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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 1616-1683 1966
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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 1616-1683 1966
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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.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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City codes and country customs present some contradictious.
Etiquette Agnes H. Morton
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Left-handed with him (one who ever was contradictious of Ciaran) they saw a ship foundering in their sight.
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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.
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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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