What is a contradistinction?

What is a contradistinction? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Distinction by contrast; the provision of one example against which another example may be defined.
  2. The quality of being contradistinctive.
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It stands, therefore, in real contradistinction to the type of vested interest in land that one encounters with a lease.
In contradistinction, this is a philosophy that ought to be at the core of a democratic society, committed to openness, transparency and accountability.
Social history emerged either as a marginal or as an oppositional subdiscipline or approach, in contradistinction from the received type of conventional history.
In perfect contradistinction is the tangy, crunchy coleslaw.
Thanks partly to Thomas, the concert orchestra became an American specialty, in contradistinction to the pit orchestras of Europe.
In contradistinction, the other half of the biennial is made up of work from elsewhere in the world.

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