circumstance
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- Rhymes: -ɑːns
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circumstance (plural circumstances)
- That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
- An event; a fact; a particular incident.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 20:
- Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 20:
- Circumlocution; detail.
- Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
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That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event
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event; fact; particular incident
circumlocution; detail
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condition in regard to worldly estate
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to circumstance (third-person singular simple present circumstances, present participle circumstancing, simple past and past participle circumstanced)
- To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.