contradictory
adjective
asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite.
contradictories
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pluralof contradictory.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Of two contradictories one or other must be true: we must either affirm or deny any one thing of any other: no mean or middle is possible.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
They are contradictories, that is, one must be, to the exclusion of the other.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
But we cannot, even in thought, unite such contradictories, such discordant elements; any more than we can reduce the strident sounds of a multitude of cacophonous instruments to one harmonious and beautiful melody.
From The Purpose of the Papacy by John S. (John Stephen) Vaughan
On the contrary, it is impossible for the same thing to be in motion and at rest, else contradictories would be verified of the same subject.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
Hegelianism was, in principle, the identity of contradictories, the identity of truth and error, of good and evil.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
