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Definition of Contradistinguish
1. Verb. Distinguish by contrasting qualities.
Derivative terms: Contradistinction
Definition of Contradistinguish
1. v. t. To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.
Definition of Contradistinguish
1. Verb. (transitive) To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contradistinguish
Literary usage of Contradistinguish
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)
"They contend that the words "in the civil service" were not employed merely to
contradistinguish the service described from that of the military or naval ..."
2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"We contradistinguish it, on the one hand, to fact or event; and we contradistinguish
it, on the other, to person, homo, or man. Sometimes, however, we take ..."
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