To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).
His testimony contradicts hers.
To oppose (a person) by denying the truth or pertinence of a given statement.
Everything he says contradicts me.
To be contrary to (something).
Now no truth can contradict any truth; desirous therefore they were to be taught, how bothe might stand together, that which they knew could not be false, because Christ spake it; and this which to them did seeme true, onely because the Scribes had said it.
Derived from Latin contrādictus (“contradicted”), the past participle of contrādīcō (“speak against”) (originally two words).
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