In its much more frequent sense of "nevertheless, in spite of that, even so" and the lusty "contrariwise," that said clears the air and clears the throat for casting aspersions on all that has preceded it.
Contrariwise, when you say that or It's downhill all the way, you could mean the opposite: "It can only get worse from now on".
And so, contrariwise (as Tweedledee would say), the occasional snobbish jab should probably be overlooked.
But sometimes, contrariwise and somewhat incoherently, Kant seems instead to say that the imagination at once (i) belongs to sensibility and yet also (ii) is caused by the action of the understanding on sensibility.
But we contrariwise hold, that their infinity of worldes is a fable indeed: as also to say, that among those innumerable worlds, there is not so much as one governed by reason or the providence of God; but that all things were first made and afterwards maintained by meere chance and fortune.
Contrariwise, Gang et al. [5] have not observed the presence of glands with 8 cells, and they say that the pleated glands do not present a terpenoid content.
Now, say it go for currant and be constantly beleeved, that it is an undoubted and infallible signe, that the God will give answer, when the host or sacrifice thus drenched doth stire; and contrariwise, that he will not answer, if the beast quetch not: I see nothing herein repugnant unto that, which we have before delivered.
Sort-of contrariwise, Lindsay Whaley, chairman of linguistics at Dartmouth, says, "In the section of your column that you sent to me, the participles are gerunds, but this does not negate the fact that they are also participles".
Perhaps, as his songs said, he wanted to "nullify" life; or perhaps, contrariwise, he was high on it.
Ammonius contrariwise attributeth all unto the warres which had consumed the Pilgrims that used to resort unto the said Oracles.
