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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