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"ipa": "/ˈkɒntɹi/",
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"roman": "obratno",
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"word": "обратно"
},
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"sense": "the opposite",
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"word": "aveso"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "the opposite",
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],
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the opposite",
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],
"word": "Gegenteil"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the opposite",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"Terms with Dutch translations",
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"Terms with Finnish translations",
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"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Ingrian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
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"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
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"Terms with Spanish translations"
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"ref": "1549 April 29 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Seuenth Sermon of Maister Hugh Latymer, which He Preached before King Edward [VI], the .19. Day of Aprill.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 93, recto:",
"text": "You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes?",
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"text": "The Athenians having left the enemie in their owne land, for to pass into Sicilie, had very ill successe, and were much contraried by fortune[…].",
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"glosses": [
"To impugn."
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"(obsolete) To impugn."
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"ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter LXXVII, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:",
"text": "thus wilfully sir Palomydes dyd bataille with yow\n& as for hym sir I was not gretely aferd but I dred fore laūcelot that knew yow not\nMadame said Palomydes ye maye saye what so ye wyll\nI maye not contrary yow but by my knyghthode I knewe not sir Tristram",
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"text": "I finde them everie one in his turne to have reason, although they contrary one another.",
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"To contradict (someone or something)."
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"(obsolete) To contradict (someone or something)."
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"To do the opposite of (someone or something)."
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"(obsolete) To do the opposite of (someone or something)."
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"To act inconsistently or perversely; to act in opposition to."
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"(obsolete) To act inconsistently or perversely; to act in opposition to."
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"To be self-contradictory; to become reversed."
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"(obsolete) To be self-contradictory; to become reversed."
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"ipa": "/ˈkɒntɹəɹi/",
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},
{
"ipa": "/kənˈtɹɛəɹi/",
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"UK"
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɒntɹi/",
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"ipa": "/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/",
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"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "frustrating",
"word": "sich widersetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "frustrating",
"word": "widersetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"word": "entgegensetzen"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "frustrating",
"word": "behindern"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "frustrating",
"word": "hindern"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "frustrating",
"word": "verhindern"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"note": "of the wind",
"sense": "frustrating",
"word": "tukipoho"
}
],
"word": "contrary"
}
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