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/sˈərkəmstˌænsəz/ /sˈərkəmstˌænsɪz/ Listen

noun

circumstance n.

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. "The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened."

An event; a fact; a particular incident. "The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqueror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history."

Circumlocution; detail. (Obs.) "So without more circumstance at all I hold it fit that we shake hands and part."

pl. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings. "When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."

Not a circumstance, of no account. (Colloq.)

Under the circumstances, taking all things into consideration.

Synonyms: Event; occurrence; incident; situation; condition; position; fact; detail; item. See Event.

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... because he could not control the soldiery of Cabul; and that, therefore, he had left the place and come in, to show his friendship for the English. Whatever may have been the motives for his coming, they were never fully explained. Circumstances which afterwards occurred strongly confirmed the suspicion that ...

— For Name and Fame - Or Through Afghan Passes • G. A. Henty

... any tree that better adjusts itself to circumstances, or that struggles more bravely or successfully. I am hopeful that before many years the school-children of America will be well acquainted with the Lodge-Pole Pine, and I feel that its interesting ways, its struggles, and its importance will, before long, be appreciated ...

— Wild Life on the Rockies • Enos A. Mills

... tell you a few circumstances connected with that man's history," the convict said, as we walked towards him. "Ten years since he was on trial for the murder of his wife. The evidence was not very clear, so the jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter, thinking that they ...

— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... improvements must be very slow, however favorable other circumstances may be, where those citizens, who, by their rank and situation in society, are destined to direct the public opinion, AFFECT to consider the national prejudices as unconquerable[16].—But to return to the ...

— ESSAYS, Political, Economical and Philosophical. Volume 1. • Benjamin Rumford

... mood. The sensibility of his nerves was so acute that the most trivial impression conveyed to them by external means assumed the gravity of a wound. While one fixed thought occupied and tormented his spirit, the rest of his being was left exposed to the rude jostling of surrounding circumstances. Groups of sensations rushed with lightning rapidity across his mental field of vision, like the phantasmagoria of a magic lantern, startling and alarming him. The banked-up clouds of evening, the form of the Triton ...

— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio

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