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Example sentences for "contrariety"

Lexicographically close words:
contrare; contraria; contrarie; contraries; contrarieties; contrarily; contrariness; contrario; contrarious; contrarium
  1. On this point there was no contrariety of opinion; and several of these merchants declared that they had sent vessels to the Continent a very few days before the date of the Orders of Council.

  2. I am struck with the contrariety of opinion which prevails among gentlemen.

  3. On this subject, however, I believe there is no contrariety of opinion.

  4. The only advantage he is supposed to have given was at the battle of Brandywine, and that was produced by the contrariety and uncertainty of the intelligence received.

  5. Their only contrariety to grammar consists in this, that the words are not the literal representatives of the number for which they are put.

  6. Here the assertion is contrary to experience properly so called; and this is a contrariety which no evidence can surmount.

  7. Where different principles beget a contrariety of conduct, which is the case with all different political principles, the matter may be more easily explained.

  8. In contrariety to these considerations, were the wish to oblige me, and a dislike to wound the feelings of your friend, Miss Josephine, and this scale kicked the beam?

  9. In yielding to his superior judgment, when in contrariety to hers, her will has parted with none of its strength in the bend which proved its pliancy.

  10. In fine, though they both loved the amiable qualities each found in the other, yet the wide contrariety between their dispositions occasioned a coolness in their behaviour which their hearts were far from feeling.

  11. What she had been told in relation to the death of Mrs. Trueworth, raised a strange contrariety of ideas in her, which it was impossible for her either to reconcile, or oblige either the one or the other totally to subside.

  12. And here we see the nature and extent of that bewildering contrariety which we have noticed between man's social progress and his other interests of happiness and morality.

  13. But we repeat that the contrariety between them is not a necessary or universal one.

  14. There is, within this particular picture and scene, no direct conflict, but, at first, a complete contrariety of aim.

  15. On the great principles which should constitute the basis of their system, not much contrariety of opinion is understood to have prevailed.

  16. In a government constituted like that of the United States, it would readily be expected that great contrariety of sentiment would prevail, respecting the principles on which its affairs should be conducted.

  17. The judgment is so much influenced by the wishes, the affections, and the general theories of those by whom any political proposition is decided, that a contrariety of opinion on this great constitutional question ought to excite no surprise.

  18. This contrariety of sentiment respecting commercial regulations was only a part of a general system.

  19. The sprite of contrariety mounted to her brain to indemnify her for her recent self-abasement.

  20. The former glanced at the contrariety of man, the latter embraced his melancholy destiny.

  21. Friendships for the useful are based on the contrariety of fulness and defect, as poor and rich, ignorant and knowing (VIII.

  22. Whether There Was Contrariety of Wills in Christ?

  23. Hence there was contrariety of wills in Christ.

  24. For contrariety of wills regards contrariety of objects, as contrariety of movements springs from contrariety of termini, as is plain from the Philosopher (Phys.

  25. Hence it is clear that in Christ there was no opposition or contrariety of wills.

  26. 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.

  27. Therefore there was contrariety of wills in Him.

  28. Objection 1: It would seem that there was contrariety of wills in Christ.

  29. Consequently there is no contrariety in the Father delivering Him up and in Christ delivering Himself up.

  30. Hence for there to be contrariety of wills in anyone it is necessary, first, that the diversity of wills should regard the same.

  31. For if the will of one regards the doing of something with reference to some universal reason, and the will of another regards the not doing the same with reference to some particular reason, there is not complete contrariety of will, e.

  32. Secondly, for contrariety of wills it is necessary that it should be in the same will.

  33. Now when the spirit desires one thing, and the flesh another, there is contrariety of wills.

  34. I answer that, Contrariety can exist only where there is opposition in the same and as regards the same.

  35. Whether there was any contrariety of wills in Christ?

  36. Dear Lilias smiled back with sweet unconsciousness as she met her friends' glances, but she was at no difficulty to read their meaning, and heaved a sigh for the contrariety of fate.

  37. In so doing she roused in an instant all his obstinacy, all the imperious contrariety which would not tolerate the decision of another, even though it tallied with his own.

  38. He had not meant to tell her the truth, but a certain contrariety led him on.

  39. The prepositive particles dis and mis, derived from the des and mes of the French, signify almost the same as un; yet dis rather imports contrariety than privation, since it answers to the Latin preposition de.

  40. No hostility is so hard to turn into love as that which has its origin, not in the attitude of its object, but in instinctive consciousness of contrariety in the depths of the soul.

  41. The one idea of absolute contrariety between God and evil is put in a rich variety of shapes in vv.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contrariety" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accord; addition; adjunct; affairs; affiliation; affinity; alliance; antagonism; antipathy; antithesis; approximation; association; asymmetry; backlash; baseness; bond; caprice; closeness; collision; combination; competition; conflict; confrontation; connection; contention; contiguity; contradiction; contradistinction; contraposition; contrariety; contrast; dealings; deduction; departure; deviation; difference; disaccord; disagreement; discrepancy; disjunction; disparity; disproportion; dissension; dissent; dissimilarity; dissonance; distinction; divergence; diversity; enmity; filiation; friction; harshness; homology; hostility; imbalance; inadequacy; incompatibility; incongruity; inconsistency; inequality; injustice; insufficiency; intercourse; interference; intimacy; irregularity; junction; kick; liaison; link; linkage; mixture; nearness; nonconformity; obscenity; obstinacy; odds; opposing; opposition; originality; perversity; polarity; polarization; propinquity; protest; proximity; rapport; reaction; recoil; relations; relationship; repercussion; repugnance; resistance; revolt; rivalry; separateness; shortcoming; showdown; similarity; sympathy; tie; unbalance; unevenness; union; unorthodoxy; variance; variation; variegation; variety; vying