I deleted my contacts on my Mac.

I deleted my contacts on my Mac to enable a new iphone to have a clean address book.  I didn't realize it would delete those contacts on my iPhone.  How can I recover those contacts so that they remain on my iPhone?

By deleting contacts that are in the "icloud" section of the contacts, you have deleted them from icloud.  Hence, if the phone syncs with icloud, they will be deleted from the phone.
If that happens the only way to get the contacts back is to restore the contact files from a backup of your MAC (look in Time Machine).  Backups on icloud do not include contacts, since contacts are already stored in their own icloud database, which unfortunately you deleted.

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