contrivance
noun
something contrived; a device, especially a mechanical one.
precontrivance
-
a word derived from
contrivance.
Example Sentences
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Shakespeare's Art is not Artifice; the noblest worth of it is not there by plan or precontrivance.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe
Shakspeare's Art is not Artifice; the noblest worth of it is not there by plan or precontrivance.
From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Shakespeare’s Art is not Artifice; the noblest worth of it is not there by plan or precontrivance.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
Shakspeare’s Art is not Artifice; the noblest worth of it is not there by plan or precontrivance.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
