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- noun Plural form of
contradictor .
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Examples
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An account that supports the opinion of the contradictors.
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King and the public, but which had no contradictors, for nobody was witness of what took place at Blenheim except those actually there, and they all, the principals at least, agreed in their story.
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If we approximate more highly to harmony among the parts of an expression and to all available circumstances of an occurrence, the self-contradictors turn hazy.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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I shall, I fear, have contradictors, but I address myself to those who look for truth.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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But though almost self-evident and universally acted upon in practice, this truth has met with many contradictors.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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With admirable self-denial he reiterated the same arguments a hundred times over, a hundred times took up the history of the quarrel from the beginning, spreading such a light over the quibbles and refinings of his contradictors, that it should have brought conviction to the bluntest minds.
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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Certainly at the Conference his practice was to meet the more powerful of his contradictors on their own ground and come to terms with them, so as to get at least a part of what he aimed at, and that he accepted, even when the instalment was accorded to him not as such, but as a final settlement.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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Evil rumors, plentifully spread abroad against them, simply defeated themselves; flying from mouth to mouth they speedily found contradictors who had no difficulty in showing their absurdity.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893
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O maid-servant of God! Be not disheartened if thou hearest the murmuring of the deniers, the clamor of the hypocrites, the shouting of the contradictors, the barking of the furious, harmful dogs, in those climes.
Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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Trismegistus of old, “verum certè verum atque verissimum est,” [103] would sound arrogantly unto present ears in this strict enquiring age; wherein, for the most part, probably, and perhaps, will hardly serve to mollify the spirit of captious contradictors.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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