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contrariness
(ˈkɒntrərɪnɪs; in sense 2 colloq. kənˈtrɛərɪnɪs)
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The state or condition of being contrary; opposed nature, opposition.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. i. (1495) 294 Contrarynesse of the qualytees. 1511Colet Serm. Conform. & Ref. in Phenix (1708) II. 7 The contrariness of our own evil life which is contrary both to God and Christ.
2. Self-willed opposition, perverseness, perversity; = contrariousness.
1642Rogers Naaman 101 Eminently (for slinesse and contrarinesse) in resisting the worke of conversion. 1878Mrs. Stowe Poganuc P. xxix. 242 The very sympathy they long for, by a strange contrariness of nature, they throw back on their friends as an injury. 1880Academy 14 Aug. 114/1 Mr. Arnold, indeed, is an Englishman quand même, and somebody might very well devise an oxymoron..to express his ‘contrariness’. 1882Mrs. J. H. Riddell Pr. Wales's Garden-Party 155 Humouring his contrariness. |