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Antonyms for contrivance


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh n-trahy-vuh ns
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈtraɪ vəns



Definition of contrivance

Origin :
  • 1620s, from contrive + -ance.
  • noun plan, fabrication
  • noun gadget
Example sentences :
  • This expedition up the mountain was entirely of his contrivance.
  • Extract from : « The Miraculous Pitcher » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The contrivance, if a contrivance, to get me away, so insolently mean!
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Then he began to experiment, with some rude apparatus of his own contrivance.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • It was by his contrivance the girl had been sent from India.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • Please, however, to note the contrivance which I adopt whenever I am in a difficulty of this sort.
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • And by what like contrivance would you have me catch my lovers?
  • Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon
  • In its present form it is the offspring of the art and contrivance of man.
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 » by Various
  • Contrivance—that most belauded phenomenon in Nature's craft—was everywhere.
  • Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
  • And so comes now a contrivance for holding the spindle in this position.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Cotton Plant » by Frederick Wilkinson
  • Beauty” is, to some persons, as great a stumbling-block as “contrivance.
  • Extract from : « Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection » by Alfred Russel Wallace

Synonyms for contrivance

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