chancing

English

Verb

chancing

1. present participle of chance

Noun

chancing (plural chancings)

1. Something that happens by chance.
   • 1832, Robert Mudie, The Botanic Annual, page viii:

     Although some of the subjects treated of are deciduous, all of them last for seasons; and such is the intention of the book, whatever may be its chance in a world of chancings.

   • Thomas Hardy

     I did not know what better or worse / Chancings might bless or curse […]