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What does contravene mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To act contrary to an order, or fail to conform to a regulation.
  2. (transitive) To deny the truth of something.
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The council decided an application to convert an old inn into houses would contravene the human rights of villagers who drank there.
If, on the other hand, members of organisations do engage in acts which contravene the criminal law then the law is able to deal with them.
Some of the other matters about exaggeration, invention of untrue stories and so forth, may arguably contravene the section.
Disclosure would contravene a prohibition imposed by or under any enactment.
What chance, then, of the judges now forbidding parliament to contravene our home-grown constitutional principle of the rule of law?
Any mark of disgrace worn under order would contravene this principle.

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