Obs. rare. [f. as prec.: see -ANCY.] Contrary or adverse quality; contrariety.

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a. 1617.  Bayne, On Eph. (1658), 105. It hath no inward positive repugnancy or contrariancy.

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1812–29.  Coleridge, Lit. Rem., III. 117. Its contrariancy and enmity to Christ.

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