CONTRAVENTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contravention mean? 

• CONTRAVENTION (noun)
  The noun CONTRAVENTION has 1 sense:

1. coming into conflict with

  Familiarity information: CONTRAVENTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRAVENTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming into conflict with

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

contravention; dispute

Hypernyms ("contravention" is a kind of...):

resistance (group action in opposition to those in power)

Derivation:

contravene (go against, as of rules and laws)

 Context examples 

Already, however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young law student is loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already completely sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the statutes of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of delegated possession, is held in a dead hand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)