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Circumstantially   /sˌərkəmstˈæntʃəli/  /sˌərkəmstˈænʃəli/   Listen
Circumstantially

adverb
1.
According to circumstances.
2.
Insofar as the circumstances are concerned.
3.
In minute detail.  Synonym: minutely.
4.
Without advance planning.  Synonyms: accidentally, by chance, unexpectedly.  Antonym: deliberately.






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"Circumstantially" Quotes from Famous Books



... Parisian mummery, Bonaparte caused letters to be written from the War-office, in his own name, to particular soldiers of high military reputation in every brigade, (whose private history he had previously caused to be investigated,) alluding circumstantially to the leading facts in their personal or family career; a furlough accompanied this letter, and they were requested to repair to Paris, where the emperor anxiously desired to see them. Thus was the paternal interest expressed, which their leader took ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey

... Psyche: a Journal of the Unseen; and proceeded laborously to rid himself of much incomprehensible humour, apparently at our expense. We bore it patiently, with the forced grin demanded by convention, anxious to get at the source of inspiration, which it presently appeared lay in a paragraph circumstantially describing our modest and humdrum habitation. "Case III.," it began. "The following particulars were communicated by a young member of the Society, of undoubted probity and earnestness, and are a chronicle of actual and recent experience." ...
— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame

... news for Dr. Belton, told garrulously at tea by his young son, and more circumstantially by Sister Vera; but for long afterwards there was no further sign of improvement ...
— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine

... found occasion to alter anything essential in the preparation of this second edition. On the other hand, what was written eight years ago has been enlarged, and the endeavour has been made to express many things more exactly and circumstantially than was then possible. Unfortunately the author was obliged, through stress of work, to let a long period elapse between the time when the first edition was exhausted, and ...
— Christianity As A Mystical Fact - And The Mysteries of Antiquity • Rudolf Steiner

... ever remained to attach partisans to his interests, never received Lord Lovat into his presence.[162] The infamy of the exploits of the former Master of Lovat had preceded his visit to France: the whole account of his own reception at St. Germains, written with astonishing audacity, and most circumstantially ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume II. • Mrs. Thomson


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