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contradistinguished

contradistinguished is the simple past and past participle of contradistinguish.

Meaning of contradistinguish

Verb

contradistinguish (third-person singular simple present contradistinguishes, present participle contradistinguishing, simple past and past participle contradistinguished)

  1. (transitive) To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities.
    • Reason, therefore, here, as contradistinguished to faith, I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas, which it has got by the use of its natural faculties ; viz. by sensation or reflection.1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Questions about contradistinguished

What is contradistinguished the simple past and past participle of?
Contradistinguished is the simple past and past participle of contradistinguish.

Words near contradistinguished in the dictionary

  1. contradistinctive
  2. contradistinctively
  3. contradistinctiveness
  4. contradistinctly
  5. contradistinguish
  6. contradistinguished
  7. contradistinguishes
  8. contradistinguishing
  9. contradistinguisht
  10. contraexpectation
  11. contraexpectational

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