1. Noun
The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
2. Noun
The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
3. Noun
an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
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