contradictiousness

The parenthesis describing how he "was ever contradictious of Ciaran" is probably a gloss; so far as the incident goes, the contradictiousness is the other way.

The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints Anonymous

He always disputes and often snubs what one says; partly, I am sure, from a love of truth – a genuine desire to keep himself and everybody else from talking in an unreal way, and from repeating common ideas without thinking them out at first hand; and partly, too, from what Keziah calls the "contradictiousness" of his temper.

Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls 1872

He always disputes and often snubs what one says; partly, I am sure, from a love of truth -- a genuine desire to keep himself and everybody else from talking in an unreal way, and from repeating common ideas without thinking them out at first hand; and partly, too, from what Keziah calls the "contradictiousness" of his temper.

Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

There seemed a good prospect that it would become an article of faith with her; her first verdict -- that it was an hallucination -- having been undermined by a certain contradictiousness, produced in her by an undeserved discredit poured on it by pretenders to a superior ghost-insight; who, after all, tried to utilise it afterward as a peg to hang their own particular ghosts on.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

And yet, such is the natural contradictiousness and vexatious disposition of the British parent, that you'll always find him coming to inquire after just one of those very particular Tommies or Bobbies.

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

Old McKay had named his cottage Ben Nevis, either because the country around was as flat as a pancake, or out of sheer contradictiousness.

The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains 1859