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Definition of Contradict

1. Verb. Be in contradiction with.

2. Verb. Deny the truth of.

3. Verb. Be resistant to. "The board opposed his motion"

4. Verb. Prove negative; show to be false.

Definition of Contradict

1. v. t. To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

2. v. i. To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.

Definition of Contradict

1. Verb. (obsolete) To speak against; to forbid. ¹

2. Verb. To deny the truth of (a statement or statements). ¹

3. Verb. To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Contradict

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contradict

contractually contractural contractural diathesis contracture contracture deformity contractured contractures contracultural contracyclical contracyclically

contradance contradances contradancing contradanza contradanzas contradict (current term) contradictable contradicted contradictedness contradicter

contradicters contradicting contradiction contradiction in terms contradictional contradictionless contradictions contradictions in terms contradictious contradictiously

Literary usage of Contradict

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

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... and was published to the world as • stockholder thereof by its officers, and took no action to contradict the assertion that he was such stockholder, ..."

2. A Digest of the Law of Evidence by James Fitzjames Stephen, George Chase (1898)
"EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE TO contradict ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS TESTING VERACITY. When a witness under cross-examination has been asked and has answered any ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"What I ant to Bay must l>e but thut which contradict* my accusation. Shot., WT, ill. 2. I have more Manners than to contradict what a Lady has declar'd. ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... out of Cyprus to contradict it (for Coridon, who was not a Stranger to the Plott, putt an Embargue uppon all Ships, to hinder any Accounts France. from ..."

5. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"If the Australians have no such idea because they have myths which contradict it, then Israel, by parity of reasoning, had no such idea. ..."

6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... who bad sustained a recent siege of eight days, to contradict the truth of their own decrees, and to censure the behaviour of their own deputies. ..."

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