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contradistinguishing

contradistinguishing is the present participle and gerund 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 contradistinguishing

What is contradistinguishing the present participle and gerund of?
Contradistinguishing is the present participle and gerund of contradistinguish.

Words near contradistinguishing in the dictionary

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

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