contrarious

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Alas! what more contrarious deed, What greater miracle of wrong than this, That man should know his good and take it not?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

You and I seem to meet in a mild contrarious harmony ... as in the 'si no, si no' of an Italian duet.

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert

And therefore thei maken ymages lyche to tho thinges, that thei han beleeve inne, for to beholden hem and worschipen hem first at morwe, or thei meeten ony contrarious thinges.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard

Say worthie Doctours & Clerkes curious, What moneth you of bookes to have such number, Since diuers doctrines through way contrarious, Doth man's minde distract and sore encomber.

From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner

Part of his wish to wash his hands of life arose from his perception of its contrarious inconsistencies—of Nature's jaunty readiness to support unorthodox social principles.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas