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self-contraˈdiction
[self- 1 a.]
The act or fact of contradicting oneself (or itself); also, a statement which contains elements that contradict one another.
1658Owen (title) A Defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of Selfe Contradiction. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 95 As if there were a great many Self-contradictions to be met with in the Scripture. 1736Butler Anal. i. vii. 125 The most palpable Self-contradictions. 1865Kingsley Herew. xxxvi, With the strange self-contradiction of human nature. 1876Mellor Priesthood v. 250 The superlocal presence of a body is a phrase which involves a self-contradiction, inasmuch as it excludes an essential property in the definition of body.
So self-contraˈdicting ppl. a. (hence self-contraˈdictingly adv.), † self-contraˈdictious, self-contraˈdictory adjs., (hence self-contraˈdictorily adv.).
1655–87H. More App. Antid. (1712) 221 It is an incongruous and *self-contradicting position to hold. 1672Baxter Bagshaw's Scandals ii. 15 The self-contradicting man. 1866Macm. Mag. Feb. 383 An authority thus divided, and thus self-contradicting.
1653Baxter Christian Concord 30 To say we deal *self-contradictingly.
1660H. More Myst. Godl. i. v. 12 A Mystery which they hold impossible and *self-contradictious.
1943Mind LII. 313 We remember the man who never said, ‘To see an event we should have to see it in an instant’, thus self-contradictorily misdescribing our use of ‘see an event’. 1959P. F. Strawson Individuals i. 34 The standard..is set self-contradictorily high. 1981G. MacBeth Kind of Treason ii. 17 The Clapham Center, as it was rather self-contradictorily called.
1657Baxter Agst. Quakery 8 Their Doctrines are *self-contradictory. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. iv. 162 The Florentine's precepts were..so self-contradictory..that he was supposed to be in jest. |