contrariety
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Adversative, ad-vėrs′a-tiv, adj. denoting opposition, contrariety, or variety.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The contrariety is more apparent than real, as the operation consists in the removal of the coarser roots, a process which results in the development of a mass of fine feeding roots.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles. µ We speak of antagonism between two things, to or against a thing, and sometimes with a thing.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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 Scott, Eva
I hoped, after our separation, you would have changed your sentiments; I hoped too, that God would have delivered me from the tumult of my senses, and that contrariety which reigns in my heart.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre
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
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
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
California is a country of contrarieties in every respect.
From Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
What I am going to relate is hardly decent, yet I shall tell it, because it is the simple truth, and furnishes a good example of these persecuting contrarieties.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo
