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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
contrary .
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Examples
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With that he left her, and the baron came to the conclusion, before very long, that something had "contraried" the charming Miss Chyne.
With Edged Tools Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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And charms so contraried by contrast lovelier show.
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No truely, holy Father, there is no likelyhood of his abstaining; for since I made my complaint to you, he belike taking it in evil part, to bee contraried in his wanton humours, hath (meerely in despight) walked seaven times in a day by my doore, whereas formerly he never used it above once or twice.
The Decameron 2004
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As if he shuld saye/he is no les contraried in any one of theise commaundemẽtes/then in an other.
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For our faith is contraried in diverse manners by our own blindness, and our spiritual enemy, within and without; and therefore our precious
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For wickedness hath been suffered to rise contrary to the Goodness, and the Goodness of Mercy and Grace contraried against the wickedness and turned all to goodness and to worship, to all these that shall be saved.
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AND all this bliss we have by Mercy and Grace: which manner of bliss we might never have had nor known but if that property of Goodness which is God had been contraried: whereby we have this bliss.
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And when it was told to the emperor that the marriage of his daughter had been solemnly made, he was much abashed, and when he knew the truth of the two esquires and of the duke that found the child, and of the priest that had set in the letter the things above said, he apperceived well that the ordinance of God ought not to be contraried.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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Vellacott looked what the French call "contraried."
The Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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I jes 'llowed dat 'twas sunthin' mighty mean, an 'I knowed dat I couldn't be very fur wrong nohow, ef I jes contraried ebbery word what he said.
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