contradictorilyadv.
/kɒntrəˈdɪktərɪli/ 1. In a way that contradicts or involves contradiction; in contradictory terms.
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the mind > language > statement > denial or contradiction > [adverb]
contradictorily1605
contradictoriously1647
contradictory1746
denyingly1824
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [adverb] > in contradictory terms
contradictorily1605
self-contradictingly1653
contradictiously1698
contradictively1842
1605 T. Hutton Reasons for Refusal 88 Contradictorily fight with the expresse oracles of scripture.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xv. 369 As for the story men deliver it variously..divers contradictorily, or contrarily, quite overthrowing the point. View more context for this quotation
1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) IV. 52 Having acted so contradictorily to the fundamental laws of Sparta.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 198 Warton certainly has hastily and contradictorily censured Heywood.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 132 They are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic, and stubborn,—and as mild, sweet, and sensible.
2. Logic. With contradictory opposition.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [adverb] > in the manner of other types of proposition
particularly1573
problematically1588
discretively1626
contradictorily1678
connexively1684
dispositionally1908
1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 302 Not contradictorily or privatively, but contrarily opposed to it.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xvii. 331 The case in which the members of disjunction are contradictorily opposed.
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