contrariety
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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
Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles. µ We speak of antagonism between two things, to or against a thing, and sometimes with a thing.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Wilmot and Goring were able to raise a faction hostile to the Prince, within the army itself, and it was at this period that Arthur Trevor compared the "contrariety of opinions" to the contending elements.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva
Adversative, ad-vėrs′a-tiv, adj. denoting opposition, contrariety, or variety.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
I hoped, after our separation, you would have changed your sentiments; I hoped too, that God would have delivered me from the tumult of my senses, and that contrariety which reigns in my heart.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre
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
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
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
You may be tolerant or intolerant of contrarieties of thought, but contrarieties you will have.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
Accordingly we find in them surprising mixtures of devotion and tenderness, and remaining frailty, and a lively picture of human nature in its contrarieties of passion and reason, its infirmities, and its sufferings.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre
