contrariety
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Wilmot and Goring were able to raise a faction hostile to the Prince, within the army itself, and it was at this period that Arthur Trevor compared the "contrariety of opinions" to the contending elements.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
By a singular contrariety, the most obscure interval in our hero's life was that wherein he acquired the greatest renown.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
But Isidorito, contrary to what might have been believed, considering his vast legal attainments and his gravity no less vast, met with a slight contrariety in his love-making.
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s
The cause was attributed to contrarietie of winds; but the contrariety of wils was the truest impediment.
From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by John Hayward
Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; Ð often followed by to.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
With Martin, who has just been released after serving a prison term, Ayme takes a dreamlike but invigorating stroll through the contrarieties of Western society.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Sharpe shook his head as if to clear it of contrarieties.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Notwithstanding perhaps we should rather say in virtue of these strong contrarieties, they made admirable travelling companions, and the road slipped away unconsciously to each.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
And how look for the sympathy that consoles and comforts, from him whose greatest sufferings are the jarring contrarieties of his own nature?
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
