contrariety

Example Sentences

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Somehow, the contrariety of the proprieties, as she translated them, bewildered and baffled him.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

And yet, at the same moment, with a contrariety of feeling from which he shrank aghast, there was skulking into his mind all that grewsome company of doubts.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

What can be the cause of this strange contrariety?

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

There is, of course, a great deal of vague statement and often a contrariety of opinion with regard to the other world and how things are carried on there.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)

The whole force of the contrast and contrariety between the Colossian Christians’ past and present lies in that emphatic “now.”

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander