contrariety

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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

Thoughts would be his, and views, and desires forever, whose very shadow touched him, to cause pain, and to assure him of their contrariety to his nature.

From Papers from Overlook-House by Almore, Casper

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 Alexander, Mrs.

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

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