contrivement

noun

contrivement

noun

Etymology From contrive + -ment.

1

Obsolete contrivance; invented statement; arrangement or plan

the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great Fabrick of the Universe1662, Joseph Glanvill, Lux Orientalis:
active to meet their contrivements1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the Third:

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