contrarietie

English

Noun

contrarietie (countable and uncountable, plural contrarieties)

Obsolete form of contrariety.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 5, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  The Cantharides have some part in them, which by a contrarietie of nature serveth as an antidot or counterpoison against their poison […].

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