Contradictiously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a contradictious manner or spirit; with contradiction; contentiously. † b. With self-contradiction, inconsistently (obs.).

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c. 1630. Jackson, Creed, IV. II. vi. Wks. III. 311. Contradictiously to contest with the Spirit by which he uttered these divine oracles.

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1698. [R. Fergusson], View Eccles., 16. Contradictiously to what he said and did under the late reign.

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1850. T. A. Trollope, Impress. Wanderer, viii. 113. So contradictiously disputatious a spirit was prevalent!

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1873. Miss Broughton, Nancy, I. 242. ‘Do you think she can have grown that much in four weeks?’ asks he, not contradictiously, but a little doubtfully.

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