Contrariety is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTRARIETY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being contrary
• contrary opposition.
• opposition or inconsistency between two things
• The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.
• Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency.
• the relation between contraries
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being contrary

Words related to CONTRARIETY

contrarieties15

Words that contain CONTRARIETY

subcontrariety21

How to use CONTRARIETY in a sentence

• Now this contrariety had been made apparent, and his lordship had not even attempted to refute it.
• The difference between the old and new dispensations was of developement and progression, not of diversity or contrariety.
• Matilde knew that Veronica had considerable gifts of contrariety, and that it would be a mistake to press her too closely for a definite answer.
• The plurality of attributes which we are accustomed to ascribe to God agree but poorly with his unity free from all contrariety.
• THE NEED OF AN ENLARGED SPACE-CONCEPT It is the contrariety in phenomena already referred to, that is forcing advanced minds to entertain the idea of higher space.
• With appropriate contrariety, an unfamiliar and hitherto almost detested line of investigation now attracted me.
• CONTRARIES arise from an opposite principle in contrariety thereto, 425.
• But, by a strange contrariety of fate, to Bramante and San Gallo fell respectively the planning and the spoiling of S.
• With such contrariety there can be no peace, with such similarity there can be no pleasure.
• So that this method of finding the longitude, with a happy contrariety to all others, is most easy and practicable at sea.
• The former glanced at the contrariety of man, the latter embraced his melancholy destiny.
• I tried yet another way round, and put her at a moderate and seemingly innocuous bank, at which, with the contrariety of her sex, she rushed at a thousand miles an hour.
• She did it very scientifically, as knowing the contrariety of coal and the anxiety of flaming sticks to end in smoke unless rigidly kept up to the mark.
• The best voices, in fact, often belong, by some contrariety of fate, to the worst musicians.
• His were of a different kind, the contrariety between theory and fact.
• There was a contrariety of claims between the Roman and Anglican religions, and the history of my conversion is simply the process of working it out to a solution.
• Hence for there to be contrariety of wills in anyone it is necessary, first, that the diversity of wills should regard the same.
• Secondly, for contrariety of wills it is necessary that it should be in the same will.
• And hence it must be said that although the natural and the sensitive will in Christ wished what the Divine will did not wish, yet there was no contrariety of wills in Him.
• Hence it is clear that in Christ there was no opposition or contrariety of wills.
• Hence in Christ there was no contrariety of flesh and spirit, as in us.
• Consequently there is no contrariety in the Father delivering Him up and in Christ delivering Himself up.
• A parliament, which was soon after assembled, plainly discovered, by the contrariety of their proceedings, the contrariety of the motives by which they were actuated.
• Concerning the disease, there was great contrariety of opinion among medical men.
• The evidence from testimony may be destroyed either by the contrariety and opposition of the testimony, or by the consideration of the nature of the facts themselves.
• Opposing principles in nature, by their contrariety, produce good and evil, 661-u.
• Whatever may be the multiplicity or contrariety of opinions upon this subject, nature has taken sufficient care that theory shall have little influence on practice.
• Throughout life Bear Belcovitch retained the contrariety of character that marked his matrimonial beginnings.
• The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, there was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
• But Rachel nursed her contrariety, even to the extent of a perverse satisfaction at her encounter with the judge, and a fierce enjoyment of its still possible consequences.
• The multiplicity and contrariety of the facts are upon us as we face in practice the ideals which we have accepted from the earlier thinkers, from the century of hope.

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