contrariety

The reason of all this contrariety has been assigned already.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

"That a contrariety to moral rectitude was consequently infinitely displeasing to God and infinitely evil."

From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Ethan Allen

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

By a singular contrariety, the most obscure interval in our hero's life was that wherein he acquired the greatest renown.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach

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

It is making the first thousand pounds that is the difficulty in this country of contrarieties, as you call it.”

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

Here are contrarieties which must always make themselves powerfully felt.

From The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim