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contravenes
vb. (en-third-person singular of: contravene)
Usage examples of "contravenes".
As the will of the nation, in so far as it contravenes not the law of God or the law of nature, binds every individual of the nation, no individual or number of individuals has, or can have, any right to conspire against him, or to labor to oust him from his place, till his escheat has been pronounced by the voice of the nation.
The opium law is a joke, and whoever contravenes it is released as soon as he is caught.