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Definition
unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)
- She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.Chapter 1 (27% in)
- I observed this also and contrived a fan of branches, which roused the embers when they were nearly extinguished.Chapter 11 (33% in)
- Here also we made some acquaintances, who almost contrived to cheat me into happiness.Chapter 19 (51% in)
There are no more uses of "contrived" in Frankenstein.
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