单词 | self-contradictious |
释义 | self-contradictiousadj. Now rare. Engaging in or characterized by self-contradiction; internally inconsistent; self-contradictory. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [adjective] > showing contradiction > of oneself self-contradicting1647 self-contradictory1654 self-contradictious1657 self-repugnant1660 1657 J. Stalham Reviler Rebuked ii. xi. 291 R. F. in this is Self-contradictious; for while he would have Thou and Thee to be the proper and pure language of the Spirit, he denies the Scripture properly to be called the word of God. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness i. v. 12 A Mystery which they hold impossible and self-contradictious. 1714 J. Edwards Some Brief Crit. Remarks Dr. Clarke's Last Papers 15 All that he pleaded before to the contrary, is Self-contradictious and ridiculous. 1858 Theol. & Lit. Jrnl. July 172 It were to suppose him to be as ill-judging, as self-contradictious, and as disobedient to the truth as he was before. 1909 W. F. De Morgan It can never happen Again l. 635 She was certainly in a very curious, confused, self-contradictious frame of mind, was Marianne. 1935 Yale Law Jrnl. 44 547 The book is thoroughly confused and self-contradictious. 2003 R. L. Caserio in R. Hampson & M. Saunders Ford Madox Ford's Modernity iii. 176 Ford is a master of the representation of the self-contradictious duality, or multiplicity, of life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1657 |
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