Corroborate vs Contradict - What's the difference?
corroborate | contradict |
To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
* I. Taylor
To make strong; to strengthen.
* I. Watts
(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 verbs the difference between corroborate and contradict
is that corroborate is to confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for while contradict is (obsolete) to speak against; to forbid.corroborate
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Verb
(corroborat)- The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.
- As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.
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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.
