contrary purpose

And no sooner has a new rotation of affairs given the superiority to another party, than another law, equally unreasonable and equally new, is found equally necessary for a contrary purpose.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11. Parlimentary Debates II. by Samuel Johnson

Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and to good works: we too often consider one another for the very contrary purpose, to provoke to contempt or ill-will.

From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

The rockets had primarily been placed to check the fall of the projectile upon the moon, and now they were going to employ them for a directly contrary purpose.

From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne

What could be more intelligible than that the inertia of matter, or pure chance, or some contrary purpose, should mar the expression of any platonic idea exercising its magic influence over the world?

From Character and Opinion in the United States by George Santayana

In the first place, there was within doors, and under his immediate roof, four new comers, nearly each of which was actuated by some contrary purpose or design.

From The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast by Maturin Murray Ballou