self-contradictingadj.

1647 Let. to Mr. Tho. Edwards 5 That golden calfe,..that selfe contradicting, groundlesse, lifelesse, spiritlesse Image of jealousie.

1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. xiii. 389 It is an incongruous, and self contradicting position to hold.

1672 R. Baxter Church told of Bagshaw's Scandals ii. 15 The self-contradicting man.

1724 N. Amhurst Oculus Britanniæ 5 Thy pride it was to sift the darkest themes, To hood-wink truth and reconcile extremes, Self-contradicting tenets to maintain, And prove by reason, that all reason's vain.

1819 Morning Post 25 Dec. I would sooner see an honest farmer, with an ordinary degree of sagacity, at the helm of Government, than such shallow, shuffling, self-contradicting Politicians.

1866 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 383 An authority thus divided, and thus self-contradicting.

1912 Mind 21 77 Then shall we have philosophies of the different aspects of this variegated world, and not merely (and sometimes self-contradicting) sciences.

1959 Econ. Hist. Rev. 11 549 The question of state regulation of hours of labour for women and children brought forth various, conflicting, and sometimes self-contradicting views from the classical economists.

2006 Trames 10 287 Students may come to see the teacher as philosophically flimsy or even self-contradicting.

1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 30 To say we deal self-contradictingly.

1918 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 22 384 The Greeks began this baffling quest by finding the world, self-contradictingly, both spirit and matter, both spontaneous and machine-like.

2008 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Feb. 2 Professor George Steiner's new book, called, self-contradictingly, My Unwritten Books.