Contradictions
[kɒntrə'dɪkʃnz]
Definition
(a.) Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
(a.) Inclined to contradict or cavil
Typed by Benjamin
Examples
- It would be tedious to repeat his arguments, and my contradictions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He explains the perplexities and contradictions of life as a conflict of light and darkness, Ormuzd was God and Ahriman Satan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You will soon be rid, now, of me and my contradictions. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But there were plenty of contradictions in his imaginative demands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These were perplexities and contradictions that I could not account for. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That is a contradiction in terms; and even implies the flattest of all contradictions, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The bulk of these new Bible students took what their consciences approved from the Bible and ignored its riddles and contradictions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Others, perhaps, or myself, upon more mature reflections, may discover some hypothesis, that will reconcile those contradictions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That was what I meant when I spoke of stimulants to the intellect; I was thinking of the contradictions which arise in perception. Plato. The Republic.
Typed by Benjamin