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contraˈdictoriness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The state or quality of being contradictory.
c1730A. Baxter Enq. Nat. Soul II. 180 (T.) This objection from the contradictoriness of our dreams sounds big at first. 1791J. Whitaker On Gibbon lx. (R.), Confounding himself by the contradictoriness of his own ideas. 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 158 There is so much..self-contradictoriness in what Horne Tooke advances on verbs and participles. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 590 The apparent contradictoriness to human reason of divine facts.
2. Disposition to contradict or oppose whatever is said; contradictiousness.
1810Bentham Packing (1821) 102 Contradictoriness..manifested, in terms of a certain degree of strength, towards some proposition or propositions, that have been advanced by some one else. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. v. 75 He was not without contradictoriness and rebellion even towards his own resolve. 1887Old Man's Favour I. i. iv. 89 Tell folks to go one way, and, from sheer contradictoriness, they start gaily off in the other. |