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Definition of Contradictious
1. a. Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
Definition of Contradictious
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Filled with contradictions; inconsistent. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) Inclined to contradict or cavil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contradictious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contradictious
Literary usage of Contradictious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"We answer, that if the idol of the soul be not quite separated from contrary, it
would be flatly contradictious to it to say, that it is only part of it in ..."
2. The Theological and Literary Journal (1854)
"Obscure, mystical, and contradictious indeed, as his representation is, there is
no other theory from which it could have sprung. ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... Religionists) of later times extend the divine omnipotence to things contradictious
and impossible, as to the making of one and the same body, ..."
4. A Universal Pronouncing Gazetteer: Containing Topographical, Statistical by Thomas Baldwin (1847)
"... has sometimes led even well-informed geographers,* will be avoided; and the
apparent contradictious which arc so often met with in our most popular ..."