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contrariness - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun contrary
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun noun
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If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it.
March « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it.
wendell berry | the contrariness of the mad farmer « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
To be believable to the reader, they can’t be blatantly contradictory ie today they hate Jane, tomorrow they love Jane – unless that very contrariness is part of the plot.
Back on the horse ... karenmiller 2007
By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness ,
Eothen 2003
By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness , I felt the more strongly for my creed when I saw it despised among men.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850
She, again, proves her "contrariness " in the Bloomberg interview, by outing Treasury Secretary Geithner's rotten math that tries to convince subtraction takes nothing from a sum.
Who Is Elizabeth Warren, and Why Doesn't Corporate Government Care? 2009
I appeal to the White community to turn away from "contrariness " as the motor for political debate, and to help us give every citizen in this Province a stake in this Province.
SPEECH BY EBRAHIM RASOOL, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE WESTERN CAPE, IN RESPONSE TO THE PREMIER�S OPENING SPEECH DELIVERED ON FRIDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 1999 1999
She might be out of patience with Sara's "contrariness ," but she spoiled and petted her for all that, for the girl was the very core of her childless heart.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920
The bitter ones sneer or reproach or laugh at this "contrariness " in women they do not understand, and which, baffling their intellect, appears to them to be irrational folly.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 1918
She might be out of patience with Sara's "contrariness ," but she spoiled and petted her for all that, for the girl was the very core of her childless heart.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea 1908
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