The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contrariety \Con`tra*ri"e*ty\n.; pl. Contrarieties. [L. contrarietas: cf. F. contrari['e]t['e].]
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The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.
There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses.
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Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency.
How can these contrarieties agree?
--Shak.Syn: Inconsistency; discrepancy; repugnance.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of contrariety English)
Usage examples of "contrarieties".
And herein is Divinity conformant unto Philosophy, and generation not only founded on contrarieties, but also creation.
The fusion of these schemes presented no difficulty, and it was to strike him again that in little Bilham's company contrarieties in general dropped.