contrariety

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Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; Ð often followed by to.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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.

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 Palacio Vald?s, Armando

Somehow, the contrariety of the proprieties, as she translated them, bewildered and baffled him.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

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 Stockley, Cynthia