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- noun Plural form of
contravener .
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Examples
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She was not physically as vigorous or brutal as those other women whom he had encountered in the lupanars, thus far — raw, unashamed contraveners of accepted theories and notions — and for that very reason he liked her.
The Financier 2004
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She was not physically as vigorous or brutal as those other women whom he had encountered in the lupanars, thus far -- raw, unashamed contraveners of accepted theories and notions -- and for that very reason he liked her.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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And all magistrates, sheriffs, &c., on the one part, are ordained to search, apprehend, and punish all contraveners: For instance Act 5, Parl.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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_has_ obtained one, and that he will take all contraveners into
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The court, animated by the same sentiments as President do Thou, "declared the maxims maintained in the Jesuits 'name to be rash, seditious, contrary to the word of God, savoring of heresy and condemned by the holy canons; it expressly forbade them to be taught publicly or privately, on pain, in case of contraveners, of being treated as guilty of treason against God and man.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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