Benediction vs Contradict - What's the difference?
benediction | contradict |
A short invocation for divine help, blessing and guidance, usually after a church worship service.
* Milton
* Longfellow
The form of instituting an abbot, analogous to the consecration of a bishop.
A Roman Catholic rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water and formally dedicated to God.
(obsolete) To speak against; to forbid.
*, New York 2001, p. 203:
To deny the truth of (a statement or statements).
To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person).
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
As a noun benediction
is a short invocation for divine help, blessing and guidance, usually after a church worship service.As a verb contradict is
to speak against; to forbid.benediction
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Noun
(wikipedia benediction) (en noun)- So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus / Followed with benediction .
- Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her.
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Antonyms
*maledictioncontradict
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Verb
(en verb)- magic hath been publically professed in former times, in Salamanca, Cracovia, and other places, though after censured by several universities, and now generally contradicted , though practised by some still […].
- His testimony contradicts hers.
- Everything he says contradicts me.
- Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, / And say it is not so.
- The future cannot contradict the past.
- No truth can contradict another truth.
- A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents.