contradictorily, adv.
(kɒntrəˈdɪktərɪlɪ)
[f. contradictory + -ly2.]
1. In a way that contradicts or involves contradiction; in contradictory terms.
| 1605 T. Hutten Reas. Refusal 88 Contradictorily fight with the expresse oracles of scripture. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xv. 369 As for the story men deliver it variously..divers contradictorily, or contrarily, quite overthrowing the point. 1734 tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. IV. viii. 154 Having acted so contradictorily to the fundamental laws of Sparta. 1841 D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 356 Warton certainly has hastily and contradictorily censured Heywood. 1856 Emerson Eng. Traits, Charac. Wks. II. 57 They are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic, and stubborn—and as mild, sweet, and sensible. |
2. Logic. With contradictory opposition.
| 1678 Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 302 Not contradictorily or privatively, but contrarily opposed to it. 1837–8 Sir W. Hamilton Logic xvii. (1866) I. 331 The case in which the members of disjunction are contradictorily opposed. |