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contradistinguish /kɒntrədɪˈstɪŋɡwɪʃ /verb [with object] archaicDistinguish between (two things) by contrasting them: we do not know exactly when the common law and statute law began to be contradistinguished...- The privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, as contradistinguished from citizens of a State, are chiefly defined in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
- It is important to understand, however, that (for Plato at least) the rational part of the soul is not to be identified with what Hume called Reason and contradistinguished from the Passions.
- In his article he contradistinguishes Europe and the West, while ably tying in the Lithuanian case.
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