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conˈtrariousness rare in mod. use.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Opposition, antagonism, contrariety; self-willed perversity.
1398Trevisa Barth. de P.R. x. iii. (Tollem. MS.), Betwene þe qualiteis of elementes is contrariousnesse and stryf. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 74 Contraryusnes of the wedyr. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxii. 2 The foresayd contrariousnes, from which David riddeth himself violently. 1853A. H. Clough Poems & Pr. Rem. (1869) I. 373 The hardness and roughness and contrariousness of the world. |