contrivance
[kuh n-trahy-vuh ns]
noun
something contrived; a device, especially a mechanical one.
the act or manner of contriving; the faculty or power of contriving.
a plan or scheme; expedient.
Origin of contrivance
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Related Words for contrivance
gimmick, ruse, artifice, contraption, dodge, stratagem, twist, angle, plot, machination, expedient, slant, project, trick, switch, invention, design, measure, formation, inventivenessExamples from the Web for contrivance
Contemporary Examples of contrivance
The endless succession of quotation marks is its own contrivance, a scrim between Shields and the world.
Historical Examples of contrivance
This expedition up the mountain was entirely of his contrivance.
The Miraculous PitcherNathaniel Hawthorne
The contrivance, if a contrivance, to get me away, so insolently mean!
Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
Then he began to experiment, with some rude apparatus of his own contrivance.
Self-HelpSamuel Smiles
It was by his contrivance the girl had been sent from India.
Henry DunbarM. E. Braddon
Please, however, to note the contrivance which I adopt whenever I am in a difficulty of this sort.
CratylusPlato
contrivance
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