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Advocation vs Contradiction - What's the difference?

advocation | contradiction |

As nouns the difference between advocation and contradiction

is that advocation is (archaic) the act of advocating or pleading while contradiction is (uncountable) the act of contradicting.

advocation

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) The act of advocating or pleading.
  • (British, legal) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
  • (Scotland, legal) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
  • References

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    contradiction

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of contradicting.
  • His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
  • (countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
  • There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
  • (countable) a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions
  • Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
  • (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
  • Synonyms

    * (proposition that is false for all values of its variables)

    Antonyms

    * (proposition that is false for all values of its variables) tautology

    Coordinate terms

    * (proposition that is false for all values of its variables) contingency, tautology