All 10 Uses
contrived
in
Pride and Prejudice
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- The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions; their minds were more vacant than their sisters', and when nothing better offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening; and however bare of news the country in general might be, they always contrived to learn some from their aunt.†
p. 29.7contrived = unnatural or arranged
- Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.†
p. 32.2 *contrivance = a device created for a purpose OR something arranged (often seeming artificial)
- How can you contrive to write so even?†
p. 47.1contrive = arrange
- Elizabeth then contrived to sit by her aunt.†
p. 150.7contrived = unnatural or arranged
- Again she read on; but every line proved more clearly that the affair, which she had believed it impossible that any contrivance could so represent as to render Mr. Darcy's conduct in it less than infamous, was capable of a turn which must make him entirely blameless throughout the whole.†
p. 199.8contrivance = a device created for a purpose OR something arranged (often seeming artificial)
- You must contrive to send somebody.†
p. 205.7contrive = arrange
- As soon as all had ate, and the elder ones paid, the carriage was ordered; and after some contrivance, the whole party, with all their boxes, work-bags, and parcels, and the unwelcome addition of Kitty's and Lydia's purchases, were seated in it.†
p. 212.9contrivance = a device created for a purpose OR something arranged (often seeming artificial)
- I know you will contrive it all.†
p. 274.2contrive = arrange
- Mrs. Bennet, through the assistance of servants, contrived to have the earliest tidings of it, that the period of anxiety and fretfulness on her side might be as long as it could.†
p. 315.4contrived = unnatural or arranged
- of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance!†
p. 328.5contrivance = a device created for a purpose OR something arranged (often seeming artificial)
Definitions:
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(1)
(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)