Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Opposed to nature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Opposed to or against nature; unnatural.
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- adjective Opposed to or against
nature ;unnatural .
Etymologies
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contra- + natural. Compare counternatural.
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Examples
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But I soon felt, that human nature itself fought up against this wilful resignation of intellect; and as soon did I find, that the scheme, taken with all its consequences and cleared of all inconsistencies, was not less impracticable than contranatural.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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