contrariety
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She did know the longing, the discontent, the universal contradiction and contrariety which is involved in that condition of unfulfilment to which so many grey and undeveloped lives are condemned.
From Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations by Mrs. Alexander
Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
He had an inexhaustible fund of good humour, and was not even angry when Pete, in sheer contrariety, told him the reason for his enticement to the still.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
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
To hold out against Miss Waterhouse had sometimes been necessary to satisfy that spirit of contrariety which represents the workings of original sin in the best behaved of children.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
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
“Archie,” he said, “in this land of contrarieties does the moon sometimes rise in the south?”
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables
Whatever contrarieties she met with in life, she was quite certain they came not from any fault of hers; and if self-esteem could give happiness, she must have enjoyed it.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
