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For combination of any kind involves contradiction in terms; it involves a self-stultification on the part of one or more things, more or less complete in both of them. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel

The municipal authorities may have thought that by this egregious act of self-stultification they might mitigate the judgment that was impending over them.

From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)

Having committed herself thus, to wait for her daughter would have been the merest self-stultification.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

But he makes a very pretty show of convicting me of self-stultification in according to our purely theoretic satisfactions any place in the humanistic scheme.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

If long-continued peace is enervating, it is mere self-stultification to plead for conscription on the ground that it will still further prolong that enervating condition.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman