contrariety
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Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel?
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
What had been done to him, those acquainted with the art of renovation could alone tell; but here was a contrariety without going far to find it.
From Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours by William Henry Bunbury
"That a contrariety to moral rectitude was consequently infinitely displeasing to God and infinitely evil."
From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Ethan Allen
At any other time, moved by the sheer and wanton contrariety of her disposition, Constance would have declined to profit by this concession—would have delighted to stand by and deftly add fuel to the fire.
From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford
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
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
These prevailing contrarieties were well calculated to make me doubtful of what my luck was to be.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
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