Ridiculing your contradictor is a last resort when you run out of valid argument, I believe. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Investors in defunct rural group Timbercorp's 30-odd olive and almond schemes will find out next week whether administrator KordaMentha will get court backing for a plan to make an application to wind them up, although judge Ross Robson of the Victorian Supreme Court yesterday granted them the right to have a "contradictor" put their case. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But it went, he said, just like a decreet in absence, and was lost for want of a contradictor. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Or were they reserving themselves to see how far this audacious contradictor would dare to go? ❋ Unknown (2003)
Starr also thought it wiser to give more credence to the first letter than to the second; that is to say, to the request of such a man as Simon Ford, rather than to the warning of his anonymous contradictor. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Moreover, my amiable contradictor, permit me to submit to you one further observation. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“My dear contradictor, you have just put your finger upon the true and only difficulty; nevertheless, I have too good an opinion of the industrial genius of the Americans not to believe that they will succeed in overcoming it.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
For, these two things, to be the Son and to be God, are at perfect agreement with each other; but to derive his essence from the Father, and, at the same time, to derive it from no one, are evidently contradictor, and mutually destructive the one of the other. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)
For sometimes contradiction arises on account of the person who speaks, the contradictor refusing to consent with him from lack of that love which unites minds together, and this seems to pertain to discord, which is contrary to charity. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
The odd halfpenny presumably represents the cost of an evening edition bought by the official contradictor in the exercise of his duties. ❋ Various (N/A)
Despair makes man God's judge; it is a controller of the promise, a contradictor of Christ in his large offers of mercy; and one that undertakes to make unbelief the great manager of our reason and judgment, in determining about what God can and will do for sinners. ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)
The most opposite opinions have been set forth with ability and earnestness; but the weight they would otherwise carry is lessened by their mutually contradictor-y character. ❋ Alfred Arthur Reade (N/A)
It should be noted that he calls Honorius "the confirmer of the heresy and contradictor of himself", again showing that Honorius was not condemned by the council as a Monothelite, but for approving Sergius's contradictory policy of placing orthodox and heretical expressions under the same ban. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
He resented her impertinence -- for, like all men of clear and positive mind, he regarded contradiction as in one aspect impudent, in another aspect evidence of the folly of his contradictor. ❋ Unknown (1911)
That I had in my view the “Discourses on Davila,” which have filled Fenno's papers for a twelvemonth, without contradiction, is certain, but nothing was ever further from my thoughts than to become myself the contradictor before the public. ❋ Unknown (1900)
Without the restraining presence of the representatives of authority the contradictor, indeed, would often be done to death. ❋ Unknown (1896)
There is a contradiction, therefore, between humanity and its ideal, an opposition between man and God, an opposition which Christian theology has allegorized and personified under the name of Devil or Satan, -- that is, contradictor, enemy of God and man. ❋ Unknown (1888)
What he had really drawn upon himself was a hand-to-hand wrestle with a man who had no sooner provoked contradiction than he resented it with all his force, and with a determination to crush the contradictor. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
I [sometimes] am [guilty] of being a [contradictor]. ❋ HHHELLBOY2 (2009)
[look at that] [contradictor] over there in [the stands] ❋ Sox101 (2008)
They were [contradictoring] me, even [though] they new i was right about [the dog] being disobedient. ❋ (2021)
