contravene
- to come or be in conflict with; go or act against; deny or oppose: to contravene a statement.
- to violate, infringe, or transgress: to contravene the law.
Origin of contravene
Related Words for contravening
hinder, overstep, impugn, violate, repudiate, disobey, interfere, infringe, negate, breach, defy, transgress, exclude, resist, intrude, spurn, combat, cross, encroach, interposeExamples from the Web for contravening
Historical Examples of contravening
And so he was apprehended, and summarily tried, on a charge of contravening the statute 55 Geo.
My Schools and SchoolmastersHugh Miller
Cures for infectious sheep disease or for rinderpest amongst the cattle are opposed as contravening the intentions of Providence.
South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume IJ. Castell Hopkins
Nor did Buddhism for a long time think of contravening the last injunctions of its Founder.
Buddhism, In its Connexion With Brahmanism and Hinduism, and In Its Contrast with ChristianitySir Monier Monier-Williams
The report of that upright minister did not, by contravening facts, affect to exculpate his country.
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5)John Marshall
Their abuse of it was their own action, and the action consisted not in conforming to, but in contravening, God's will.
TheismRobert Flint
contravene
- to come into conflict with or infringe (rules, laws, etc)
- to dispute or contradict (a statement, proposition, etc)
Word Origin for contravene
Word Origin and History for contravening
1640s, verbal noun from contravene; from 1802 as a present participle adjective.
contravene
1560s, from Middle French contravenir "to transgress, decline, depart," from Late Latin contravenire "to come against," in Medieval Latin "to transgress," from Latin contra "against" (see contra) + venire "to come" (see venue). Related: Contravened; contravening.