contrariety

From this conflict between thought and fact the problem arises; out of this partial contrariety springs the question, "Why?"

From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

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

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

What can be the cause of this strange contrariety?

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

He laughed also; for despite her contrariety her mirth was most infectious, and put him more at ease with her.

From The Triumph of Jill by F.E. Mills Young

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

I have had a most severe task full of contrarieties what I did one way was undone another.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin

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