Definition of Contradistinction. Meaning of Contradistinction. Synonyms of Contradistinction

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Definition of Contradistinction

Contradistinction
Contradistinction Con`tra*dis*tinc"tion, n. Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. --South.

Meaning of Contradistinction from wikipedia

- other countries. The reference to civil law was not originally in contradistinction to common law, but to canon law, although common law was not taught...
- It is a small table with one or two rows of drawers, so called in contradistinction to (and designed to match) the tallboy or highboy chest of drawers...
- non-infectious causes (e.g. pancreatitis). Most commonly, it is used in contradistinction to a "walled-off" pus-filled collection (abscess), although a phlegmon...
- appears most notably in the philosophy of Plotinus. Henology stands in contradistinction to several other philosophical disciplines. The term henology refers...
- "null and void" is a legal doublet. The term is frequently used in contradistinction to the term "voidable" and "unenforceable". Black's Law Dictionary...
- that a departed (dead) person undergoes immediately after death, in contradistinction to the general judgment (or Last Judgment) of all people at the end...
- single coherent narrative of Jesus's life and death. However, and in contradistinction to most later gospel harmonists, Tatian appears not to have been motivated...
- or programmes which might introduce change. BAU may also stand in contradistinction to external events which may have the effect of unsettling or distracting...
- the Conquest. This translated as 'a wood in a wood' which may in contradistinction have meant a clearing. The name of Apsley adopted by the family derived...
- the joint are affected, the term "false ankylosis" has been used in contradistinction to "true ankylosis", in which the disease is within the joint. When...