conjuncture
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French conjoncture.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]conjuncture (plural conjunctures)
- A combination of events or circumstances; a conjunction; a union.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
- To be sitting, at so pleasant a conjuncture of one's courses, in oneself, by oneself, that I think it will freely be admitted is a way no worse than another, and better than some, of whiling away an instant of leisure.
- A set of circumstances causing a crisis; a juncture.
- 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 635–636:
- [I]n his later years, he [James II of England] repeatedly, at conjunctures such as have often inspired timorous and delicate women with heroic courage, showed a pusillanimous anxiety about his personal safety.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]combination of events or circumstances
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set of circumstances causing a crisis
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Further reading
[edit]- “conjuncture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]conjūnctūre
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