“contradiction” in Latin

(A) (A) as action: contradictio (post-Augustan): reclamatio (loud contradiction uttered): the spirit of contradiction, *obloquendi or obloquendi et repugnandi libido; concertationis studium (Cic., De Divin., 1, 30, 62): without contradiction, nullo obloquente (nobody contradicting): beyond (all) contradiction, sine dubio (Cic.); procul dubio (Liv.); haud dubie (Sall., Liv.): non dubie (Cic., rare: all, without doubt); sine (ulla) controversia: to meet with contradiction, impugnari; non omnibus probari (of statements): to meet with no contradiction, non impugnari; omnibus probari (also of statements): to meet with violent contradiction, acriter or graviter impugnari: to bear no contradiction, non pati sibi aliquem obloqui (of persons): to admit of no contradiction, nihil dubitationis habere: infirmari non posse; certum, evidentem esse (opposed to dubium esse, of things; e.g. evidence, etc.): (B) as state, discrepancy, inconsistency: repugnantia: pugna: discrepantia (discrepancy; e.g., scripti et voluntatis): diversitas (great diversity between things, as Tac., Germ., 15, 3: mira diversitas naturae): to stand in contradiction to anything, alicui rei repugnare or adversari; cum aliqua re pugnare or discrepare; abhorrere ab aliqua re (e.g., a vita hominum et a moribus): to stand in contradiction to each other, inter se pugnare, or repugnare, or discrepare, or dissidere. [Vid: “to be at variance with,” under VARIANCE.] There is a contradiction between these statements, haec inter se repugnant, non cohaerent. A monster made up of contradictions, monstrum ex contrariis diversisque inter se pugnantibus naturae studiis conflatum (Cic., Cael, 5, extr.)