contrariety
Americannoun
plural
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the quality or state of being contrary.
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something contrary or of opposite character; a contrary fact or statement.
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Logic. the relation between contraries.
noun
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opposition between one thing and another; disagreement
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an instance of such opposition; inconsistency; discrepancy
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logic the relationship between two contraries
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of contrariety
1350–1400; Middle English contrariete (< Anglo-French ) < Late Latin contrārietās. See contrary, -ity
Example Sentences
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The whole force of the contrast and contrariety between the Colossian Christians’ past and present lies in that emphatic “now.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander
Where different principles beget a contrariety of conduct, which is the case with all different political principles, the matter may be more easily explained.
From Essays by Hume, David
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
And yet, at the same moment, with a contrariety of feeling from which he shrank aghast, there was skulking into his mind all that grewsome company of doubts.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles
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
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