contrarious
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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 Henry Glassford Bell
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 Frederick Somner Merryweather
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 Richard Hakluyt
From Geneva, “the den of mine own ease, the rest of quiet study,” Knox was dragged, “maist contrarious to mine own judgement,” by a summons from Mrs. Bowes.
From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang
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 George MacDonald
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