contravening

Verb

contravene (third-person singular simple present contravenes, present participle contravening, simple past and past participle contravened)

1. (transitive) To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.
   • […] nothing is a commandement, or a commanded dutie but that which if we contravene, it maketh us guilty of sin before God,1648, Samuel Rutherford, chapter 69, in A Survey of the Spirituall Antichrist, London: Andrew Crooke, page 141

   Synonyms:

   breach, break, infringe, violate

2. (obsolete, transitive) To deny the truth of something.
   • […] to make the contravening of Doctrines, to be capitall, before they be fully proved, is prejudiciall to that liberty, without which none can justify himself before God or Man:1653, William Birchley, The Christian Moderator, Part 3, London: Richard Lowndes, p. 7

   Synonyms:

   contradict, controvert, dispute, gainsay