Contrivance

Definition of contrivance:

part of speech: noun

Something contrived; device; scheme.

part of speech: noun

Act of contriving: the thing contrived: invention: artifice.

part of speech: noun

A device; apparatus; scheme.

Usage examples for contrivance:

• Jones was paying back the money presently, and about that time came a young inventor named Graham Bell, offering stock in a contrivance for carrying the human voice on an electric wire. "Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens", Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009.

• If this were no longer possible, Cicely might attempt to expose Walsingham's contrivance but this would probably be too dangerous. "Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland", Charlotte M. Yonge.

• If we could get just a little peep at the inside of it we might learn the secret of its contrivance "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930", Various.

• Find a corner on which contrivance and benevolence have not stamped the royal image, and we may doubt whether that bleak spot owes Him tribute. "The Gospel According to St. Mark", G. A. Chadwick.