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Definition of Circumstance

1. Noun. A condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity.

2. Noun. The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event. "The historical context"

3. Noun. Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision. "Another consideration is the time it would take"

4. Noun. Formal ceremony about important occasions. "Pomp and circumstance"

Definition of Circumstance

1. n. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.

2. v. t. To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.

Definition of Circumstance

1. Noun. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. ¹

2. Noun. An event; a fact; a particular incident. ¹

3. Noun. Circumlocution; detail. ¹

4. Noun. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings. ¹

5. Verb. To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Circumstance

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumstance

circumscriptive circumscriptively circumscriptly circumscriptus circumsecondary circumsolar circumspatial circumspect circumspection circumspections

circumspective circumspectively circumspectly circumspectness circumsporozoite circumstance circumstanced circumstances circumstancing circumstantial

circumstantial evidence circumstantialities circumstantiality circumstantially circumstantials circumstantiate circumstantiated circumstantiates circumstantiating circumstaunce

Literary usage of Circumstance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"... relieved by this conversation, that she could not regret her being led on, though so unaccountably, to mention the circumstance which had produced it. ..."

2. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"I defy you to find out what is your present circumstance with me; ... I now like you in spite of my reason, and think it an ill circumstance to owe one's ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"And indeed this circumstance seems decisive." Will any of your readers please to ... Whatever gloss may be put upon it by French writers, the circumstance ..."

4. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"Under heaven's high cope Fortune is God—all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you. if«J in previous editions. simply with the words From ..."

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