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Criterion was reformulated in a different way
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contrariwise
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely , contrarily ] with the order reversed; "she hates him and vice versa" [syn: vice versa , the other way around ] contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contrariwise \Con"tra*ri*wise\ (? or ?), adv. On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing. --1 Pet. iii. 9. In a contrary order; conversely. Everything that acts upon the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But contrariwise it was an essential part of corporate liberty that it was open to negotiation. ▪ Since there were five of them they could do without friends if necessary, and contrariwise this made friendship easier.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 in the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction 2 on the other hand
Usage examples of contrariwise.
She had plumbed depths of bitterness there, and, contrariwise, reached a point of happiness she had never believed possible.
Wherein, O wretched company, were ye all deceived for that was the voice of the god that was in a very grievous rage that he would presently lift his arm up and spill their souls for their abuses and their spillings done by them contrariwise to his word which forth to bring brenningly biddeth.
Of course he was her father, she had been a ninny ever to dream contrariwise, or that it mattered.
But the men being patient, and not rendering railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing, and good words for bad, and kindness for injuries done, some men in the fair that were more observing, and less prejudiced than the rest, began to check and blame the baser sort for their continual abuses done by them to the men.
Speed, velocity, simultaneity, acceleration, and other mathematical abstractions having to do with the pattern of eternity were part of Martian mathematics, but not of Martian emotion, Contrariwise, the unceasing rush and turmoil of human existence came not from mathematical necessities of time but from the frantic urgency implicit in human sexual bipolarity.
Contrariwise, a group of godS will breed like rabbits, every time, and with as little regard for human formalities.
Contrariwise, a group of gods will breed like rabbits, every time, and with as little regard for human formalities.
He had been quite sure (through private knowledge) that no sergeant could cause Mike any permanent distress, and contrariwise, Jubal was not troubled by what might happen to sergeants or other ranks-an unreconciled old reactionary, Jubal had burned his own honorable discharge and all that went with it on the day that the United States had ceased having its own armed forces.
Things always went contrariwise when you were trying to puzzle out something.
And contrariwise, were this creature a servant in his household, he would hardly have her out and about in so public a place as a train station unless there was some particular reason for it, but Fowler could not imagine a reason.