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Such an orbit would take approximately two hours, with, on average, nearly half of it over the unilluminated hemisphere, but obversely, that same amount of time would be spent over the sunlit half.

From Scientific American • Oct. 27, 2023

Conversely—or obversely, really—in the Southern Hemisphere, the situation is reversed: Earth’s South Pole is tipped toward the sun most in December and tipped away from it most in June.

From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2023

The principle of Asceticism means the approval of an action according to its tendency to diminish happiness, or obversely.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

It is doing all it can to assimilate substances of the soil and substances of the air, and sunshine, too, into tree-substance: obversely it is rejecting or excluding or disregarding that which it cannot assimilate.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

Most Lepidoptera present on the under surface an entirely different aspect from that on the upper surface, and, in such cases, it is a good plan to mount a number of specimens obversely.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.