Noun

(en noun)

Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

the very circumstance which renders it so innocent is what chiefly exposes it to the public hatred

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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* (David Crystal)

Fears and hatreds pay no attention to facts.

Noun

(contrarieties)

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.