contravene

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,

[…] this Article directly contravenes the Treaty with Portugal […]

To deny the truth of something.

1653, William Birchley, The Christian Moderator, Part 3, London: Richard Lowndes, p. 7, […] 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:

To contravene positions, that have been discussed again and again by writers of the first genius and erudition, and to disparage the genuineness of the bible histories wholly and indiscriminately, without some precision of investigation, some specific allegations, founded on the report of authentic documents, is intolerable arrogance […]