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contrarietie

contrarietie is the obsolete form of contrariety.

Meaning of contrariety

Noun

contrariety (countable and uncountable, plural contrarieties)

  1. Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.
    • What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us?1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of contrarietie

pluralcontrarieties

Questions about contrarietie

What is contrarietie the obsolete form of?
Contrarietie is the obsolete form of contrariety.

Words near contrarietie in the dictionary

  1. contrariant
  2. contrariantly
  3. contrariants
  4. contraried
  5. contraries
  6. contrarietie
  7. contrarieties
  8. contrariety
  9. contrarily
  10. contrariness
  11. contrarinesses

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