Crossword clues for contradicting
contradicting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contradict \Con`tra*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contradicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Contradicting.] [L. contradictus, p. p. of contradicere to speak against; contra + dicere to speak. See Diction.]
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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.
Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, And say it is not so.
--Shak.The future can not contradict the past.
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To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist. [Obs.]
No truth can contradict another truth.
--Hooker.A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of contradict English)
Usage examples of "contradicting".
I was told that the vice-legate offered three hundred crowns, and I felt a real pleasure in contradicting my favoured rival's desires.
But when Plato most expressly declares that the gods who are made by the Supreme have immortal bodies, and when he introduces their Maker himself, promising them as a great boon that they should abide in their bodies eternally, and never by any death be loosed from them, why do these adversaries of ours, for the sake of troubling the Christian faith, feign to be ignorant of what they quite well know, and even prefer to contradict themselves rather than lose an opportunity of contradicting us?
The mystics of spirit declare that they possess an extra sense you lack: this special sixth sense consists of contradicting the whole of the knowledge of your five.
And he makes his fatal error when he switches this gauge protecting his life into the service of his own destruction, when he chooses a standard contradicting existence and sets his self-esteem against reality.
Don’t you understand that as long as you are contradicting me, the spirit of the devil is in you, forcing you to contend against those who serve God?
Testimony concerning Satan only shows up when the interrogator arrives, and then comes into court in only two ways: through the interrogator’s own testimony contradicting a witness or defendant who denies that Satan was involved, or through testimony from witnesses who confess to Satanic involvement as part of a confession that is taken as repentance, following which charges are dismissed.
The Referral Leaves Out Direct Evidence Contradicting the Notion that Ms.