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Definition of Conniver
1. n. One who connives.
Definition of Conniver
1. Noun. A person who connives ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conniver
1. one that connives [n -S] - See also: connives
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conniver
Literary usage of Conniver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw (1888)
"conniver [konei-vur] sb. To stare; gape. ... clouds conniver'd." —Dick and Sal, st.
26. CONTRAIRY [contrai-r'i] adj. Disagreeable; unmanageable. ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1914)
"... in the attempt to exact a righteous reparation, overstepped a legitimate right
of sovereignty. However guilty—or however much a conniver at ..."
3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"... if not the Author of, yet at any rate the conniver at,18 evil, inasmuch as
He, with all His extreme goodness, endured evil in Matter be- 11 Precario ..."
4. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle (1914)
"... subordinate office under his ancient and inveterate political opponent, whom
only four years ago he denounced as a conniver with foreign conspirators ! ..."
5. The Works of Alexander Hamilton by Alexander Hamilton (1886)
"I shall ever continue to hold him in the highest contempt,—to believe him to be
the conniver of the charge against me till he gives up some other person as ..."
6. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell (1920)
"... to become first a Tory and then a conniver at the restoration of the Stuarts
as the best device for preventing a foreign succession and an endless ..."
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