Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-TRA-DIS-TINC'TION
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CON-TRA-DIS-TINC'TION, n. [contra and distinction.]
Distinction by opposite qualities. We speak of sins of infirmity, in contradistinction to those of presumption. South.
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