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contriver

noun

Etymology

From contrive + -er.

  1. derived from controver
  2. inherited from contreve
  3. suffixed as contriver — “contrive + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who contrives.

    • 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;

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA