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contraˈdictiously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a contradictious manner or spirit; with contradiction; contentiously. †b. With self-contradiction, inconsistently (obs.).
c1630Jackson Creed iv. ii. vi. Wks. III. 311 Contradictiously to contest with the Spirit by which he uttered these divine oracles. 1698[R. Fergusson] View Eccles. 16 Contradictiously to what he said and did under the late reign. 1850T. A. Trollope Impress. Wanderer viii. 113 So contradictiously disputatious a spirit was prevalent! 1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 242 ‘Do you think she can have grown that much in four weeks?’ asks he, not contradictiously, but a little doubtfully. |