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contrarieties

contrarieties is the plural of contrariety.

contrarieties is the plural of contrarietie.

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

Questions about contrarieties

What is contrarieties the plural of?
Contrarieties is the plural of contrariety.

Words near contrarieties in the dictionary

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

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