Contrariety

Contrariety is a welcome diversion from the boredom of our inexorable advance.

Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

Contrariety however demands that there be some one distinct quality in the intermediates, though this quality may be seen to arise from a combination.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

_I answer that, _ Contrariety can exist only where there is opposition in the same and as regards the same.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

For instance, Contrast or Contrariety is also a connexion among Ideas: but it may, perhaps, be considered as a mixture of Causation and Resemblance.

Of the Association of Ideas 1909

Contrariety vanishes; the difference between the creature and the Creator disappears.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

How often have Christians, who should be the salt of the earth, by withdrawing themselves from its corruption acted in Contrariety to this example!

The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: I. The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians, Practically Explained. 1789-1850 1853

[5] For instance, Contrast or Contrariety is also a connexion among Ideas: but it may, perhaps, be considered as a mixture of

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume 1743

Christ, or a real and true Christian, as the World would make it; no, we may assure ourselves, that as it is the highest Honour and Happiness we can attain unto, so we shall find it the hardest matter in the World to attain unto it; not in its own Nature, but by reason of its Contrariety to our natural Temper and Inclinations.

Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712

_The Effect which such a Contrariety of Interests would always have on the sober Party_

An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War Bernard Mandeville 1701

Having convinced him of the substantial Difference and Contrariety between these Two Principles, he would display to him, on the one

An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War Bernard Mandeville 1701