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Example sentences for "contradistinction"

Lexicographically close words:
contradictious; contradictories; contradictoriness; contradictory; contradicts; contradistinguished; contragravity; contraindicated; contraindications; contraint
  1. And even a century later Hutten praises this German custom in contradistinction to the Italian morals, which would have made this practice impossible.

  2. No chiefs are war chiefs in contradistinction to their being civil chiefs.

  3. On the regnum coelorum in contradistinction to vita aeterna, in the teaching of Pelagius, see St. Augustine, De Pecc.

  4. This special divine concurrence, in contradistinction to the natural concursus whereby God supports the created universe,(98) is a strictly supernatural and gratuitous gift.

  5. The meaning evidently is that a disposition to do good will be a characteristic of the New Testament Christians in contradistinction to the hardhearted Old Testament Jews.

  6. They are called infideles negativi in contradistinction to the infideles positivi, i.

  7. There exist, however, other consciousnesses, partly forgotten, partly only loosely or indirectly connected with the contents of the superconsciousness, in contradistinction to which these may be designated as subconsciousness.

  8. They regard the mind as first making its appearance in the vertebrates, whereas the old Cartesians regarded all animals, in contradistinction to man, as mindless (unconscious) machines.

  9. Clene hewen ashler" often occurs in medieval documents; this no doubt means tooled or finely worked, in contradistinction to rough-axed faces.

  10. To assign is to make over, and the term is generally used to express a transference by writing, in contradistinction to a transference by actual delivery.

  11. During the commonwealth and empire aes grave was used to denote the old as in contradistinction to the existing depreciated coin; while aes rude was applied to the original oblong coinage of primitive times.

  12. The word ascensio, adopted in the West, implies the ascension of Christ by his own power, in contradistinction to the assumptio, or taking up into heaven of the Virgin Mary by the power of God.

  13. Assertions respecting Things, or what may be called Real Propositions in contradistinction to verbal ones, are of various sorts.

  14. Now this would be but a lame account of the real grounds which we have for believing the facts which we learn from reasoning, in contradistinction to observation.

  15. Looking at it from our own point of view, my father's branch in contradistinction of my uncle's, it ought to have been hers.

  16. The weight of Malpighi's observations therefore fell into the scale of that doctrine which Harvey terms metamorphosis, in contradistinction to epigenesis.

  17. This principle, however, contains the greatest poetry of the art, in contradistinction to the severe outline and harsh colouring of the great historical style.

  18. Quimby healed with the truth that Christ taught, in contradistinction to all Isms.

  19. Quimby, who healed with the Truth that Christ taught, in contradistinction to all Isms.

  20. But in saying, "I am wiser than my teachers," he does not consider himself one of them, but places himself in contradistinction to them.

  21. Generally known and distinguished by the name of "black robes," in contradistinction to those who live on fish.

  22. In contradistinction to all this the Apaches proper, or Apache nation, as we may call them, are slim, ill developed, but very agile.

  23. A notable difference between the Isthmians and the other aborigines of the Pacific States, is the short, rather flat nose, in contradistinction to the almost universal aquiline cast.

  24. The sub-division Sthavara is curious, for a Sthavara Jangam is a contradistinction in terms.

  25. The term 'Bodhisattva' was first applied to the Buddha before his Enlightenment, and afterwards was adopted by Mahayanists to mean the adherent of Mahayanism in contradistinction with the Cravaka or hearers of Hinayanism.

  26. FN#3] The Southern Buddhists never call their faith Hinayana, the name being an invention of later Buddhists, who call their doctrine Mahayana in contradistinction to the earlier form of Buddhism.

  27. His partisans increased from day to day, and became known as the Yellow Cap Lamas, in contradistinction to the Red Cap Lamas, who supported the old system.

  28. Objective points of maneuver, in contradistinction to geographical objectives, derive their importance from, and their positions depend upon, the situation of the hostile masses.

  29. Grand Tactics is the art of posting troops upon the battle-field according to the accidents of the ground, of bringing them into action, and the art of fighting upon the ground, in contradistinction to planning upon a map.

  30. But instruction is in contradistinction to the law of nature; since the law of nature is not learnt, but instilled by natural instinct.

  31. It is exterior action that is put in contradistinction to contemplation.

  32. In contradistinction to her husband, the more Feoktista Petrovna drank the healthier she became, and the heavier became her fists.

  33. This is intimately connected with this other fact that in the higher stages of civilization a larger number of independent households consists of single persons in contradistinction to married couples.

  34. Footnote 179-4: This is the natural rent of capital in contradistinction to the stipulated rent.

  35. Footnote 211-2: Chrematistikai in contradistinction to analotikai, according to Plato, De Rep.

  36. Footnote 162-1: Explained since Liebig's time by the fact that a part of food is consumed to preserve animal heat: means of respiration in contradistinction to means of nutrition.

  37. Sidenote: Fundamentals of arbitration in contradistinction to administration of justice by a court.

  38. Fundamentals of arbitration in contradistinction to administration of justice by a court 47 59.

  39. The foundation of Constantinople, by taking off the political pressure, permitted native peculiarities to manifest themselves, and Latin Christianity emerged in contradistinction to Greek.

  40. His god is the fashioner and father of the universe, in contradistinction to impersonal Nature.

  41. The unity asserted by Mohammed is a unity in special contradistinction to the Trinity of the Christians, and the doctrine of a divine generation.

  42. In many directions the sand-hills had been conveniently graded down by means of a power shovel called the Steam Paddy in contradistinction to the hand Paddy, or Irishman with a shovel.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contradistinction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    antagonism; antipathy; antithesis; collision; conflict; confrontation; contradiction; contradistinction; contraposition; contrariety; contrast; demarcation; difference; differentiation; disagreement; discrepancy; distinction; division; hostility; inconsistency; nuance; opposition; perversity; polarity; repugnance; segregation; separation; showdown