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Definition of Contrarieties
1. contrariety [n] - See also: contrariety
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrarieties
Literary usage of Contrarieties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the History of Christian Dogmas by August Neander (1858)
"If we look at the dogmatic contrarieties, it follows from the character of ...
The ground of the controversies rested in part on the earlier contrarieties. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"ON THE contrarieties OF LOVE (SECOND SONNET) ONE loves me though his homage I
disdain; And one for whom I languish mocks my smile. ..."
3. The Story of a Working Man's Life: With Sketches of Travel in Europe, Asia by Francis Mason (1870)
"It is sometimes lamented that such great contrarieties are united as are found in
... These contrarieties are not, however, in multitudes of instances, ..."
4. Thoughts on Religion by Blaise Pascal (1851)
"NOTHING is more astonishing in the nature of man than the contrarieties which
are observable in him, with regard to every subject. ..."
5. The Challenge of the Present Crisis by Harry Emerson Fosdick (1917)
""Host All feeling of conviction, and, in fine, Sick, wearied out with contrarieties,
Yielded up moral questions in despair." How often have such earthquakes ..."
6. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1777)
"... 15* — — on the contrarieties of public virtue, aji __ — on the theory and cure
of the venereal .gonorrhoea, ..."
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