contrariety

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What can be the cause of this strange contrariety?

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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 Taylor, Thomas

He laughed also; for despite her contrariety her mirth was most infectious, and put him more at ease with her.

From The Triumph of Jill by Young, F.E. Mills

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 Alexander, Mrs.