Contrariety vs Eminence - What's the difference?
contrariety | eminence | Related terms |
Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.
*, II.12:
*:What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us?
* 1759 , (Laurence Sterne), The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p.61:
*:This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) :
*:The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, thee was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
*2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep.:
*:At the heart of his argument is the contrariety between day and night, light and dark.
someone of high rank, reputation or social station
the quality or state of being eminent
prominence in a particular order or accumulation; esteem
(geology) an elevated land area or a hill
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
(anatomy) a protuberance
Contrariety is a related term of eminence.
As nouns the difference between contrariety and eminence
is that contrariety is opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast while eminence is importance, notoriety.contrariety
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(contrarieties)eminence
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(en noun)- From the summit of an eminence I had already had a distant view of Osbaldistone Hall, a large and antiquated edifice, peeping out from a Druidical grove of huge oaks [...].