Contrarie

"O Immortall God! how long sall thow suffer the woodnes and great crudelitie of the ungodlie to exercise thare furie upoun thy servandes, which do further thy word in this world, seing thei desyre to do the contrarie, that is, to chok and destroy thy trew doctrin and veritie, by the which thow hast schewed thee unto the world, which was all drouned in blyndness and mysknowledge of thy name. ❋ John Knox (N/A)

For there it plainelie appeareth, that the adder heareth not the voice of the charmer, charme he never so cunninglie: contrarie to the poets fabling, ❋ Unknown (2008)

Au contrarie, the usage problem does appear when dealing with gender. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Careful observation convinced him that the accused and the accusers were not bewitched at all, but mad, arguing that a belief in witchcraft was contrarie to reason, scripture and nature. ❋ Catharine Arnold (2008)

No one knew or knows exactly what “contrarie or repugnant” was intended to mean. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

These laws and ordinances, however, were not to be “contrarie or repugnant to the Lawes and Statutes of this our Realme of England.” ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

Discourser; perceived by this witty taunt, that his Bowle had run a contrarie bias, and he as farre out of Tune, as he was from the ❋ Unknown (2004)

Holy Father (as you know much better then any other) everie one that desireth to live well and vertuously, ought to shunne (so farre as in them lyeth) all occasions that may induce to the contrarie. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I never had any intent to meddle, considering, how difficult a case it is to meet with such a woman, who can agree with a man in all his conditions, and how great the number is of them, who daily happen on the contrarie: but most (and worst of all the rest) how wretched and miserable prooves the life of man, who is bound to live with a wife not fit for him. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But you know well enough, and I am certaine of it, that the Lawes enacted in any Countrey, ought to be common, and made with consent of them whom they concerne, whichin this Edict of yours is quite contrarie. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But hee, having alreadie acknowledged the contrarie, being stricken dumbe with shamefull disgrace, was not able to utter one word. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Sophronia, and converting his former allegations, into a quite contrarie sense, in utter detestation of them, and guided by his idle appetite, thus he began againe. ❋ Unknown (2004)

All of them affirmed the contrarie, avouching rather, that some Impostumation had engendered neere his heart, which sodainly breaking, occasioned his as sodaine death. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I thought the [killing] part of the movie would [scare] [the children], but on the contrary, that was their favorite part. ❋ BocaBabie1234 (2009)

* "We all believed that [Luke] was straight, but [the truth] was [quite the] contrary" ❋ LJones (2005)

[Look at] him! That [boy] is as contrary as he [wanna be]. ❋ Munky_madness (2006)

*"In the Absence of Strong Evidence to the Contrary, One May Step Out of the Way of the Charging Bull" starts [playing]* Me: OOOOOOHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHH ❋ Miistherealmvp (2021)