No contraries hold more antipathy / Than I and such a knave.
One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true.
I. Watts
If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false.
thus wilfully sir Palomydes dyd bataille with yow / & as for hym sir I was not gretely aferd but I dred fore laūcelot that knew yow not / Madame said Palomydes ye maye saye what so ye wyll / I maye not contrary yow but by my knyghthode I knewe not sir Tristram
(RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), II.12:
I finde them everie one in his turne to have reason, although they contrary one another.
puhekieltä To do the opposite of (someone or something).
puhekieltä To act inconsistently or perversely; to act in opposition to.
puhekieltä To argue; to debate; to uphold an opposite opinion.
puhekieltä To be self-contradictory; to become reversed.