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

I answer, such a Will could not create, could not be God, for it involves the false and contrarious.

From Miracles of Our Lord by MacDonald, George

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

The other kind is at best a permanent 'friendship recognised by the police':—a tacit confession of failure which this high-hearted, if contrarious couple were by no means minded to arrive at, now or ever.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud

Volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious guests Upon thy doings!

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford