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Definition of the day : « contravene »
- verb go against, contradict
- Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All who contravene these orders will be tried by court-martial.
- Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
- Arsinoe did not contravene the arrangements of the two women.
- Extract from : « The Emperor, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- The only prescription is that it shall not contravene the provisions of the proclamation.
- Extract from : « American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) » by Various
- Going to bed early does not contravene or anticipate the difficulty.
- Extract from : « Opium Eating » by Anonymous
- Here they were of course, but how was it possible to contravene the orders of Jan?
- Extract from : « The Laughing Cavalier » by Baroness Orczy
- Nor does it contravene the general assertion here made, that we act by opposing one natural force to another.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 » by Various
- But do not the turnpikes, or fall-stops, with which these rivers are thickset, contravene also the rights of nature?
- Extract from : « The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) » by Various
- Though they will freely risk their lives to steal, they will not contravene the wild rule of the desert.
- Extract from : « The Book of Enterprise and Adventure » by Anonymous
- But among these invalided articles were a few whose condition accidentally revealed attempts to contravene the postal laws.
- Extract from : « Post Haste » by R.M. Ballantyne