Contrive vs Affectation - What's the difference?
contrive | affectation |
To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
* Hawthorne
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 154
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=10 To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
:* {{quote-book, year=1810
, year_published=2009
, edition=Digitized
, editor=
, author=Dr. Samuel Johnson
, title=The Works of the English Poets
, chapter=Life of Gower
An unusual mannerism.
As a verb contrive
is to form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to plan; to scheme; to plot.As a noun affectation is
an attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.contrive
English
Verb
(contriv)- Neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.
- I cannot bear the idea of two young women traveling post by themselves. It is highly improper. You must contrive to send somebody.
citation, passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
Synonyms
* becast * cast aboutDerived terms
* contriver * contrivanceaffectation
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love ... }}