contrariously


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con·trar·i·ous

 (kən-trâr′ē-əs)
adj.
Perverse; inimical.
con·trar′i·ous·ly adv.
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And that impression of the speech is reinforced when the similes pause for a moment, as the Archbishop draws a provisional conclusion: "I thus infer, / That many things, having full reference to one consent, / May work contrariously" (204-6).
"I cannot tell wat is like me": simile, paternity, and identity in Henry V
In contrast to the Duke's description of the happily sequestered life "exempt from public haunt," Orlando defines himself contrariously as "inland bred" (2.7.97): a phrase evoking, perhaps, the realm across the water from the Globe, beyond the Liberty.
Reading Orlando historically: vagrancy, forest, and vestry values in Shakespeare's As You Like It
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