contrariety

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What can be the cause of this strange contrariety?

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

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 Palacio Vald?s, Armando

The nomination of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, was made with great unanimity and enthusiasm, though by a body composed of original elements of the most extreme contrariety.

From History of American Abolitionism by Fontaine, F. G. de

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; Ð often followed by to.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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 Webster, Noah