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Example sentences for "contrariwise"

Lexicographically close words:
contrariness; contrario; contrarious; contrarium; contrarius; contrary; contrarye; contrarywise; contrast; contraste
  1. But circumstances did not appear favorable/but contrariwise seemed to bo roused in enmity against the poor Corsican boy.

  2. This is the spirit of St. Peter's exhortation, But contrariwise blessing; that is, Be ye of those who bless.

  3. To Argyle Cecil wrote as to a friend whom he had learned to value when in Scotland, urging him to 'use stoutness and constancy, or the adversary will double his courage, where contrariwise the Papist being indeed full of cowardness .

  4. It's something contrariwise to the course of nature, done by power of will, something what couldn't happen without being specially willed.

  5. It's something contrariwise to the course of nature done by power of Will.

  6. But contrariwise he, who is led by fear and does good only to avoid evil, is not guided by reason.

  7. But conception is helped by those things which postulate the existence of a thing, and contrariwise is hindered by those which exclude the existence of a thing (II.

  8. We shall also endeavour to do whatsoever we conceive men[6] to regard with pleasure, and contrariwise we shall shrink from doing that which we conceive men to shrink from.

  9. The potentiality of non--existence is a negation of power, and contrariwise the potentiality of existence is a power, as is obvious.

  10. Mistress Wells and I contrariwise sunk on the ground.

  11. Yet Alexander ab Alexandro is of the opinion, that the fertilest region dooth bring foorth the dullest wits, and contrariwise the harder soile the finest heads.

  12. Contrariwise we see both in nature and in language forms which have grown from entirely different roots into a close external and functional similarity.

  13. Contrariwise we find that many plants not bulbous elsewhere are observed to be so when growing on the dry Karoo in South Africa.

  14. Here is noted that, whereas men in wronging their best friends use to extenuate their fault, as if they might presume or be bold upon them, it doth contrariwise indeed aggravate their fault, and turneth it from injury to impiety.

  15. But contrariwise in the governors towards the governed, all things ought as far as the frailty of man permitteth to be manifest and revealed.

  16. But contrariwise when nature makes a flower or living creature, she formeth rudiments of all the parts at one time.

  17. So as we ought not to attempt to draw down or submit the mysteries of God to our reason, but contrariwise to raise and advance our reason to the divine truth.

  18. By the Tables you may contrariwise finde out the most necessarie wordes placed after the Alphabet, whatsoever are to be found in any other dictionarie.

  19. Also by the two tables at the ende of this booke they may contrariwise finde the most necessarie Latin or French words, placed after the order of an Alphabet, whatsoever are to be found in any other Dictionarie.

  20. Ezekiel prophesied that Zedekiah should not see Babylon, whereas the book we now have not only contains no such statement, but contrariwise asserts in chap.

  21. The circle is his largest compasse or circumference: the center is his middle and indiuisible point: the beame is a line stretching directly from the circle to the center, & contrariwise from the center to the circle.

  22. Serve thus if you like it rare--if contrariwise you want it well done, set the steak on a rack or broiler in a hot oven, and let it cook there for fifteen to twenty minutes, according to thickness.

  23. Contrariwise it is welcome as summer rain.

  24. If it whirled round, the egg was done--if contrariwise it fell off, it had to go back in the embers.

  25. Contrariwise I was merry, and sought my pleasure where I thought to find it: though in such wise that Herzbruder lacked none of my care.

  26. Whereas contrariwise other folk do soon detect thy faults and condemn thee not only in high and mighty matters, but find enough to blame in thee in small things which are of little account.

  27. So too, many currish lords and masters cheated their industrious servants of their due pay and pinched them both in food and drink: and contrariwise I saw many faithless servitors which by theft or neglect brought their kind masters to ruin.

  28. Contrariwise were there women which had made their own beauty their idol.

  29. Contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

  30. Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

  31. It may not be, dear ones of contrariwise beliefs, your cradle song or your belief, or your religion.

  32. It's something contrariwise to the course of nature done by power of Will, something what couldn't happen without being specially willed.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contrariwise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    across; again; athwart; backward; contra; contrary; counter; crisscross; cross; crosswise; inversely; only; opposite; otherwise; over; perversely; rather; sideways; thwart; transverse; traverse