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Happen

verb

(past & past part. happened; pres. part. happening)

Come to pass. Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place. "The meeting took place off without an incidence" , "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

Happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance. Synonyms: bechance, befall. "These things befell"

Chance to be or do something, without intention or causation.

Come into being; become reality. Synonyms: materialise, materialize.

Come upon, as if by accident; meet with. Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find. "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here" , "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

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"Happen" Quotes from Famous Books

... the spelling of his copy. This may help us to realise one of the great difficulties which beset the study of dialects, namely, that we usually find copies of old poems reduced to the scribe's own dialect; and it may easily happen that such a copy varies considerably from ...

— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat

... is thrown by some obscure stimulus into the state of fear, and then attaches this fear to anything that suggests itself, and so comes to be afraid of something that is really not very terrific, such as the number two, "I mustn't do anything twice, that would be dangerous; if I do happen to do it twice, I have to do it once more to avoid the danger; and for fear of inadvertently stopping with twice, it is best always to do everything three times and be safe." That is the report of a naturally timorous young man. We ...

— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth

... is a very fair idea of the monstrous form of belief held during the Middle Ages. Scarcely anything that was fanciful and diabolical was not conjured up to the mind and said to happen at these Sabbaths. There was also a certain amount of ingenious theorizing afoot in order to account for certain facts, as, for instance, the cloven hoof, which it was said must always appear, no matter how concealed—it ...

— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington

... eyes opened to see the spiritual power of the Christian Faith, we might have believed without any external evidence at all. But the first receivers of the message, to whom the revelation was new, and, as must have often happened and we actually know did happen, to whom it was hard to reconcile that revelation with previous teaching, how sure were they to need some other and outer evidence that it really came from God. The supernatural in the form of miracles can never be the highest kind of evidence, can never stand alone as evidence; but it seems ...

— The Relations Between Religion and Science - Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 • Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter

... you think will happen when the revolution comes? Do you suppose the people won't have to get accustomed to violence then? ...

— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich

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