contrariety
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My heart, with astounding contrariety, yearned after the other little languid, untidy, almost unkempt Judy, as one longs in sorrow for the old scenes and surroundings of happier, dearer days.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
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 Noah Webster
The whole force of the contrast and contrariety between the Colossian Christians’ past and present lies in that emphatic “now.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
From this conflict between thought and fact the problem arises; out of this partial contrariety springs the question, "Why?"
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
At any other time, moved by the sheer and wanton contrariety of her disposition, Constance would have declined to profit by this concession—would have delighted to stand by and deftly add fuel to the fire.
From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford
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
On the absurdities and contrarieties to which my star has made me subject.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
But Scott and Turner, living in an inconsistent age, became subjected to inconsistent influences; and are at once distinguished by notable contrarieties, requiring separate examination in each.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
