Definition of "contrary to" []

• Despite (preposition)

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• "Communion is not essentially different from any other Communion the extraordinary preparation heretofore demanded is (4) contrary to the "Sacra Tridentina", which for daily communicants, including children, requires only the state of grace and a good intention."
• "The statute defines a recusant as one "Convicted for not repairing to some Church, Chapel, or usual place of Common Prayer to hear Divine Sevice there, but forbearing the same contrary to the tenor of the laws and statutes heretofore made and provided in that behalf"."
• "Otherwise, in sharp distinction from the res sacrœ among the Romans and contrary to the practice of the early Christian centuries, they may, in accordance with the"