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a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast
sculpture in contradistinction to painting
How To Use contradistinction In A Sentence
- a priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience. The Critique of Pure Reason
- Such distinctive characters are spoken of as _secondary sexual characters_, in contradistinction to the _primary sexual characters_, the reproductive organs. The Sexual Life of the Child
- For the purposes of the present discourse, however, I shall recognise none of these titles save the last, which I shall employ as the equivalent of botanist, and I shall use the term zoology as denoting the whole doctrine of animal life, in contradistinction to botany, which signifies the whole doctrine of vegetable life. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
- All of that, in our submission, strongly supports the position that the word ‘amend’ as used in 1904 was not being used in contradistinction to ‘repeal’.
- In the Greek Church the law of abstinence is designated by the term xerophagy in contradistinction to monophagy, signifying the law of fasting. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- It is called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave trade) _ "the internal slave trade_. My Bondage and My Freedom
- In this way he was a real specialist, in contradistinction to the town specialists who are identified with certain diseases or disasters.
- And, nonetheless, we regularly see him applauded in contradistinction to President Obama. Kathleen Osborn: 10 Reasons Why Reagan Is Not the Answer
- I will pass on a useful rule of thumb for spotting the kind of blinkered fundamentalist evolutionists with whom it really is a waste of time trying to debate (quite a few seem to have congregated here) They are the people who in contradistinction to being right (sc. in agreement with themselves) recognise only one category: ie, being a liar. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Social history emerged either as a marginal or as an oppositional subdiscipline or approach, in contradistinction from the received type of conventional history.