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Meaning of 'contrivance' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Contrivance [ n.]
- The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
- The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.

Meaning of 'contrivance' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . contrivance [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
Example in sentence:
  • his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem
Meaning (2):
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
Example in sentence:
  • his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
Meaning (3):
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
Example in sentence:
  • the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable

Nearby Words:

con con- conacre conarium conation conative conatus concamerate concameration concatenate

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