contrariwise

1. literarynot comparableIn the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction.

alternative contrawise · alternative contrarywise

1. literarynot comparableIn the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction.

   Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs. / Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows, / Tower suddenly, spray-haired. Contrariwise, / A wave drops like a wall: another follows, / Wilting and scrambling

   1955, Philip Larkin, “Absences”, in The Less Deceived

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   If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise.

   1891 January 3, I. Gollancz, “Widishins”, in The Academy, London, page 14, column 3

2. literarynot comparableon the other hand