Crossword clues for contravention
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contravention \Con`tra*ven"tion\, n. [Cf. F. contravention.] The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.
Warrants in contravention of the acts of Parliament.
--Macaulay.
In contravention of all his marriage stipulations.
--Motley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Middle French contravention, from Vulgar Latin *contraventionem, noun of action from past participle stem of contravenire (see contravene).
Wiktionary
n. The act of contravening a rule, regulation, or law, or of not fulfilling an obligation, promise, or agreement.
WordNet
n. coming into conflict with [syn: dispute]
Wikipedia
In many civil law countries (e.g.: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, Brazil) a contravention is a non-criminal offense, similar to an infraction or civil penalty in common law countries.
Usage examples of "contravention".
When I reached the shore, I looked for a gondola, I called the gondoliers, but, in contravention to the police regulations, there was neither gondola nor gondolier.
The descent is vertical, in contravention of normal gravitational preceptss.
We held that our oaths to our own Government placed us at its disposal until it chose to discharge us, and we could not make any engagements with its enemies that might come in contravention of that duty.
There can be no question that the spiritual is superior to the temporal, and that the temporal is bound in the very nature of things to conform to the spiritual, and any law enacted by the civil power in contravention of the law of God is null and void from the beginning.
When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.
The allegation that the lieutenant had specifically suggested the use of torture by Queen's officers, in direct contravention of at least a dozen interstellar treaties to which the Star Kingdom was a signatory, had hit the newsfaxes like a laser head.
In case of contravention, I desire that the offender be sentenced to capital punishment on charge of violation of sepulture.
Thelma Hoxey was performing experiments of this nature, they were in direct contravention of the bureau's charter, as I understood the charter, and all the rules of common human decency.
Since written communications were not allowed and contraventions were liable to severe penalties, the only chance was for those who were going home to learn the addresses by heart.
Some contraventions of right have already taken place, both within our jurisdictional limits and on the high seas.
In fact, our gendarmes have reported 7 crimes, 82 misdemeanours, 159 contraventions, 6 suicides and 15 automobile accidents, three of which resulted in death.
Possibly they enjoyed theirs more than we enjoy ours, for who shall say that the beasts of the jungle do not better fulfill the purposes for which they are created than does man with his many excursions into strange fields and his contraventions of the laws of nature?
The floor was strewn with bits of the monks' leavings: nutshells, an apple core, scraps of slate roof tiles on which messages had been written in petty contravention of the silence vowsit looked more like a cage for apes or festival bears than a room where men of God came to sing the Lord's praises.
Instead, Washington and London persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution condemning Iraq's decision and calling it a "totally unacceptable contravention of Iraq's obligations.
This remains so even with our ability to convert into tachyons and travel faster than light, seemingly in contravention of the ancient al-Einstein postulation and yet entirely in accord with it-when we include the few little adjustments made in arriving at the Grand Unified Theory.