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contrasted, ppl. a.|kənˈtrɑːstɪd, -æ-|
[f. contrast v. + -ed1.]
Set in contrast; opposed so as to heighten each other's effect, or to bring out differences.
1764Goldsm. Trav. 127 Contrasted faults through all his manners reign: Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 232 Breadths of silk, of the most contrasted colours. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 506 Contrast has always the effect to make each of the contrasted objects appear in the stronger light. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xii. 404 No labyrinth of tortuous shape, no conflict of contrasted forms.
Hence conˈtrastedly adv., in a contrasted manner, by way of contrast.
1836G. S. Faber Election ii. i. 204 Contrastedly introducing that Primitive Scheme of the doctrine of Election, which, etc. 1838Tait's Mag. V. 637 The subsequent passages..became more contrastedly important. |