contrastingly

adverb

con·​trast·​ing·​ly kən-ˈtra-stiŋ-lē 

ˈkän-ˌtra-

: in a way that makes a contrast

demonstrating contrastingly and startlingly the infinitely greater worth of practices that derive from a spiritual view of the nature of man

—J. F. Dulles

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