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Lying vs Contradicting - What's the difference?

lying | contradicting |

As verbs the difference between lying and contradicting

is that lying is while contradicting is .

As a noun lying

is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

lying

English

(wikipedia lying)

Verb

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  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?

    contradicting

    English

    Verb

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