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Contrariwise

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction. literary, not-comparable

    "If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise."

  2. 2
    on the other hand literary, not-comparable
Adverb
  1. 1
    contrary to expectations wordnet
  2. 2
    with the order reversed wordnet
  3. 3
    in a contrary disobedient manner wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English contrary-wyse; equivalent to contrary + -wise.

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