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John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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contradicted

Part of SpeechverbUsed In Literature ↓

To deny the truth of (a statement or statements).

In a Sentence

His testimony contradicts hers.

Origin

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for contradicted

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Lowndes, of the treasury, that Butler had a yearly pension of an hundred

pounds. This is contradicted by all tradition, by the complaints of

Oldham, and by the reproaches of Dryden; and, I am afraid, will never be

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