contrary purpose
Example Sentences
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This I have not only endeavoured to avoid, but also have used a method for the contrary purpose.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber
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
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
Because speech was given us to express our thoughts; to use this faculty therefore for a contrary purpose is against its nature, against a law of our being, and this is evil.
From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton
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
