| 单词 | contradiction in terms |
| 释义 | > as lemmascontradiction in terms b. A statement or phrase which is self-contradictory on the face of it: more fully a contradiction in terms. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] > contradiction self-contradiction1606 antilogy1614 bull1640 antiloquy1656 contradiction1795 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 799 Can he make deathless Death? that were to make Strange contradiction, which to God himself Impossible is held. View more context for this quotation a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 258 Contradictions become elegance and propriety of language, for a thing may be excessively moderate, vastly little, monstrous pretty, wondrous common, prodigious natural, or devilish godly.] 1795 T. Meek Sophistry Detected 11 He grants the possibility of a revelation, but he is not aware that his ideas of language make it absolutely impossible, which is a contradiction in terms. 1856 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic (ed. 2) iv. xvi. 135 Why is a two-sided triangle a contradiction? 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iii. §19 A state later than the last, which is a contradiction. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 9 A virtuous tyrant is a contradiction in terms. < as lemmas |
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