contrarious
Example Sentences
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O place and greatness, millions of false eyes Are stuck upon thee! volumes of report Run with these false, and most contrarious quest Upon thy doings!
From Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
From Geneva, “the den of mine own ease, the rest of quiet study,” Knox was dragged, “maist contrarious to mine own judgement,” by a summons from Mrs. Bowes.
From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang
The children of Mercurie and of Venus Been in hir wirking ful contrarious; Mercurie loveth wisdom and science, And Venus loveth ryot and dispence.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
I answer, such a Will could not create, could not be God, for it involves the false and contrarious.
From Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald
But the learningknight would not hear say nay nor do her mandement ne have him in aught contrarious to his list and he said how it was a marvellous castle.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
