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Contravene   Listen
verb
Contravene  v. t.  (past & past part. contravened; pres. part. contravening)  
1.
To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. "So plain a proposition... was not likely to be contravened."
2.
To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law. "Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority."
Synonyms: To contradict; set aside; nullify; defeat; cross; obstruct; baffle; thwart.





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"Contravene" Quotes from Famous Books



... exclude all counter-proof. These principles are of such ancient foundation in our system of jurisprudence, and are so much valued and venerated by our citizens, that perhaps it would be impossible to execute articles, which should contravene them, nor is it imagined that these stipulations can be so interesting to this country, as to balance the inconvenience and hazard of such an innovation with us. Perhaps it might be found, that the laws of both countries require a modification of this article; as it is ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... which, while it does not carry with it Cabinet rank—though Kitty cannot see why—is sufficiently important to make the daily papers keep my obituary notice handily pigeon-holed, in case I fall over the Thames Embankment, get run over by a motor-bus, or otherwise contravene the by-laws of ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
... from their material presence, becomes a general mould to which we tend to assimilate new observations. Whatever in particular instances may contravene the accredited rule, we attribute without a qualm to unknown variations in the circumstances, thus saving our faith in order at all hazards and appealing to investigation to justify the same. Only when another rule suggests itself which ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana


Words linked to "Contravene" :   break, differ, conflict, contravention, transgress, infract, negate, deny, infringe, dissent, disagree


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