Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-TRA-DIS-TIN'GUISH
CON-TRA-DIS-TINC'TIVECON-TRA-DIS-TIN'GUISH-ED
CON-TRA-DIS-TIN'GUISH, v.t. [contra and distinguish.]
To distinguish not merely by differential, but by opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. – Locke.
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