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contradistinguisht

contradistinguisht 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 contradistinguisht

What is contradistinguisht the simple past and past participle of?
Contradistinguisht is the simple past and past participle of contradistinguish.

Words near contradistinguisht in the dictionary

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

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