contrarieties

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A form of contrariety — Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of contrariety

    Emily sat in the window, sometimes pondering on objects without, and then on those within, when Lorraine's entrance interrupted a very profound meditation on the strange contrarieties of love affairs in this world.

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 324
  2. pluralplural of contrarietie

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