[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That contrasts; see the verb.

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1795.  [see CONTRAST v. 6].

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a. 1773.  J. Cunningham, Prol. to Rule a Wife, 7, Wks. 1797, 175.

          Should we the portrait with the sex compare,
’Twould add new honours to the northern fair;
Their merit’s by the foil conspicuous made,
And they seem brighter by contrasting shade.

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1878.  T. Hardy, Return Native, I. 243. From, of all contrasting places in the world, Paris.

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1890.  Daily News, 28 Jan., 5/3. Personal evidence of the contrasting postal rates.

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  Hence Contrastingly adv., in or by way of contrast.

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1833.  Fraser’s Mag., VIII. 94. Her own talent … throwing him contrastingly into the shade.

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1842.  Mrs. Browning, Grk. Chr. Poets, 160. From the rest, they stand out contrastingly.

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