Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality of or characterized by contradistinction; opposite in qualities.
- Distinguished by opposites.
- noun A mark of contradistinction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.
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- adjective Having the quality of
contradistinction ;distinguishing bycontrast .
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Examples
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And there's plenty of the unexpected and contradistinctive about its bid for struggling British music and books retailer HMV Group.
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And there's plenty of the unexpected and contradistinctive about its bid for struggling British music and books retailer HMV Group.
U.K. Faces Of The Week, Feb. 6-10 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006
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And, in another swell little marriage between projection and the reliance on contradistinctive definitions of manhood, the straight man who invents a sexual assault out of whole cloth benefits from the overwhelming narrative that it is women who routinely make false rape claims in desperate bids of self-preservation or vengeance.
Feminism 101 2004
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And, in another swell little marriage between projection and the reliance on contradistinctive definitions of manhood, the straight man who invents a sexual assault out of whole cloth benefits from the overwhelming narrative that it is women who routinely make false rape claims in desperate bids of self-preservation or vengeance.
Feminism 101 2004
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Montani was installed at the castle as one of the countess's maids in waiting: a somewhat contradistinctive term, be it understood, to a
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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- The application must be submitted with accredited by - laws, regulations, or any contradistinctive document that sets out the organization's rules of operation.
Masters Finance 2009
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Antarctic itself is a rare, contradistinctive place-name anti ` opposite '+ arkitos, adjective of arktos ` bear,' i.e., ` opposite the arctic or opposite the North Pole. '
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_must_ be very contradistinctive -- was the Minister, in this instance, the poor man's friend, or the rich man's friend?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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