Definition of Contrivance

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Definition of Contrivance
	Contrivance The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement. Related Definitions: Act, Arrangement, By, Contrived, Contriving, Design, Devising, Disposition, Faculty, Invented, Inventing, Of, Or, Plan, Planned, Planning, Scheme, The, Thing

Contrivance Quotations

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy Carter

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Charles Babbage

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
Gerrit Smith

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.
Robert Englund

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
George Adam Smith

Contrivance Translations

contrivance in German is Vorrichtung, Erfindung
contrivance in Swedish is anordning

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