CONTRADICTORINESS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Contradictoriness

... bitterness. In such a hot-bed of secession as was Delisleville, the fact in question was indeed not easily explainable, except upon the grounds either of a Quixotic patriotism or upon those of a general disposition to contradictoriness. A Southern man, the head of a Southern family, the Judge opposed the rebellion and openly sided with the Government. That he had been a man given to argument and contradiction, and always priding himself upon refusing to ...

— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett