contradictory meaning
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contradictory
adjective
uk/ˌkɒn.trəˈdɪk.tər.i/us/ˌkɑːn.trəˈdɪk.tɚ.i/
If two or more facts, pieces of advice, etc. are contradictory, they are very different from ...
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meaning
noun
uk/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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On closer examination, however, they are applied with ambiguous or evencontradictorymeaning.
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In old legends, epics, and utopias, cities (both actual and symbolic) appeared as places of exceptional but alsocontradictorymeaning.
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In fact, the gothicity of the text also shows in the plurality of contradictory meanings that it carries.
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In the early modern period, the word 'noise' connoted a variety of imprecise and often contradictory meanings.
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The use of symbolic interaction has illuminated the complex and often contradictory meanings attributed to weight.
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The term is untranslatable because it carries divergent and often contradictory meanings: family; house; household; stem family; (nonkin) corporate group.
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Traveling through different political and cultural contexts, cybernetic manmachine metaphors acquired, lost, and reacquired diverse and contradictory meanings.
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Still, this usually surefooted book stumbles over its reluctance to grapple with the contradictory meanings of "history" itself.
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It demanded balance to work effectively in performance, but was also able to balance contradictory meanings as part of its critical exploration of theatre's processes and their ethical foundations.
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The term 'primary' has linguistically diverse and even contradictory meanings.
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Notice how, in this passage, the word 'materiality' appears twice, with each of these contradictory meanings.
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For him they were inevitably the effect of many causes, carried a variety of often contradictory meanings, expressed several and sometimes incompatible intentions, and fulfilled multiple functions.
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Texts had multiple and contradictory meanings which attended to the concerns of power, oppression, resistance and agency.
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The special case of gospel rap presents a powerful embodiment of symbolic reproduction in its deployment of ritual activity, each symbol encompassing multiple, often contradictory meanings.
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Perhaps it is a misconception that "diffrance" seeks contradictory meanings.
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