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contraˈdictiousness [f. as prec. + -ness.] †1. The state or quality of being contradictory; self-contradictoriness, inconsistency. Obs.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 339 This reading..generally obtains, notwithstanding its seeming harshness and contradictiousness. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 653 To give an account of that supposed contradictiousness in the idea and attributes of God. 2. Disposition to contradict or oppose.
1867Spectator 20 July 798 There was a captiousness and contradictiousness about Lord Cranborne's old parliamentary style. 1884G. Allen Philistia II. 228 Such is the natural contradictiousness and vexatious disposition of the British parent. |