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 Mary Noailles Murfree
Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel?
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The First Book appears to have contained a development of the contrariety of the Scriptures, and proofs that they did not proceed from Divinity, but from men.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor
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 Mrs. Alexander
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 Armando Palacio Vald?s
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
Billy checked off the various contrarieties on his fingers.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White
Surely there never was a day more crammed with contrarieties.
From The Silent Barrier by Louis Tracy
