Both Uses
contravene
in
Middlemarch
(Edited)
- It would have been to contravene these arrangements if Rosamond had consented to go away to Stone Court or elsewhere, as her parents wished her to do, especially since Mr. Lydgate thought the precaution needless.
Chpt 3 *contravene = go against
- ... the other medical visitors having a consultative influence, but no power to contravene Lydgate's ultimate decisions;
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(contravene) to violate, go against, or contradict
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)