Contriver

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a person who makes plans wordnet

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From contrive + -er.

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