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paradoxy|ˈpærədɒksɪ|
[ad. Gr. παραδοξία, f. παράδοξ-ος: see paradox.]
†1. A paradox. Obs. rare—1.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 361 With industry we decline such paradoxies, and peaceably submit unto their received acceptions.
2. Paradoxical quality or character; paradoxicality.
1796W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. II. 777 Another well-known passage..stating the paradoxy of the Christian Creed. a1871De Morgan Budget Paradoxes (1872) 186 It may be that ignorance had more to do with it than paradoxy. 1873F. Hall Mod. Eng. Pref. 11 Regarding any truth whatsoever which is not of obvious perception in its fulness, paradoxy is likely to be orthodoxy. |