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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
contrariant .
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* Ainsi tous ceux qui s'en retirent, ou ne s'y rangent, contrarient
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Ainsi tous ceux qui s'en retirent, ou ne s'y rangent, contrarient ` a l'ordonnance de Dieu.
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Darwin ne note que les passages qui contrarient ses idees systematiques.
Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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[75] Dans tous les livres qu'il lit, et il en dévore des quantités, Darwin ne note que les passages qui contrarient ses idées systématiques. —
A Lecture on the Study of History John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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-- You may deduce from thence two conclusions, apparently contrarient, yet both warranted by the fact which you have noticed.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808
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In attending to your discourse I feel myself in the healthy state of a pupil, when without one hostile or contrarient prepossession, he listens to a teacher in whom he has entire confidence.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808
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* encore que les magistrats et leurs edits y soient contraires, que tous ceux qui ne s'y rangent, ou s'en separent, contrarient ` a l'ordonnance de Dieu.
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We believe that no one ought to seclude himself and be contented to be alone; but that all jointly should keep and maintain the union of the Church, and submit to the public teaching, and to the yoke of Jesus Christ, wherever God shall have established a true order of the Church, even encore que les magistrats et leurs edits y soient contraires, que tous ceux qui ne s'y rangent, ou s'en separent, contrarient ` a l'ordonnance de Dieu. [273] if the magistrates and their edicts are contrary to it.
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