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† contrariˈosity Obs.
Forms: 4–5 contrariouste, 4–6 -tie, 5 contrariosetee, -ite, 6 -itie, -itye.
[a. AF. contrariousete (charter of Edw. III in 1372), ad. med.L. contrāriōsitātem, n. of quality f. contrāriōsus contrarious; see -ty. Subseq. assimilated to L. form.]
Contrary or antagonistic quality; opposition, antagonism; contrariety.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxvi. 42 Þai are not hurt in þe contrariouste of þe warld. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iv. xxv. (1483) 71 He fyndeth dyuersite and contrariosite, as hete and cold. a1500Orol. Sap. in Anglia X. 140 Whosoeuer in þis manere contrariosetee ouere-comeþ himselfe. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 36 §1 Ambiguitye, doubt or contrariositye of opinion. [1721St. German's Doctor & Stud. 138 For avoiding of which contrariosity, the Law will suffer no more writs to go forth.]
b. in pl. Adversities.
c1425tr. T. à Kempis' Consol. iii. xiii, Haunted in diuerse temptacions and preued in many contrarioustes. |