Meaning of Contriver | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who contrives.

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Examples

“I’ll tell⟳ thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.”

“[…] those desctructive Machines, whereof he said, some evil Genius, Enemy to Mankind, must have⟳ been the first Contriver.”

“A heroine returning, at the close⟳ of her career, to her native village, in all the triumph of recovered reputation, and all the dignity of a countess […] is an event on which the pen of the contriver may well delight to dwell;”

“They had toured the world together with their Soirée of Illusions, combining his art as a public performer with her skill as a technician, a contriver of magical apparatus, and her artistic taste⟳, which was far beyond his own⟳.”

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