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Circumstance

noun

A condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity.

The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event. Synonyms: context, setting.

Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision. Synonyms: condition, consideration.

Formal ceremony about important occasions.

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"Circumstance" Quotes from Famous Books

... the pompous priest abuse his flock! How dare the lisping cockney revile Yorkshire!" was her sole observation on the circumstance, as ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... his own scenic point of view. Even then it would be neither superfluous nor impertinent for the manager to adjure the audience to piece out the "imperfections" of the scenery with their "thoughts" or imagination. The spectator's "imaginary puissance" is, practically in every circumstance, the key-stone of the ...

— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee

... my right mind),—he muttered, as he lay down on his hard, short bed. He tried to assert that he was ill when, a few days later, Lavretzky came for him in a calash; but Feodor Ivanitch went to him, in his room, and persuaded him. The circumstance which operated most powerfully of all on Lemm was, that Lavretzky had ordered a piano to be sent to his country-house from the town: a piano for his—Lemm's—use. Together they went to the Kalitins', and spent the evening, but not so agreeably as on the former occasion. ...

— A Nobleman's Nest • Ivan Turgenieff

... things they see, and rejoice in the righteous and unrighteous are detained, it is necessary to speak of it. Hades is a place in the world not regularly finished; a subterraneous region, wherein the light of this world does not shine; from which circumstance, that in this region the light does not shine, it cannot be but there must be in it perpetual darkness. This region is allotted as a place of custody for souls, ill which angels are appointed as guardians to them, who distribute ...

— An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades • Flavius Josephus

... represented the wreck of more than one kind of distinction. The face must once have been exceptionally handsome, before an underlying commonness and coarseness had been brought out or emphasized by developments of character and circumstance. The mouth was now loose and heavy. The hazel eyes had lost their youth, and were disfigured by the premature wrinkles of either ill-health or dissipation. None the less, a certain carriage of the head and shoulders, a certain magnificence in the whole general outline of the man, especially ...

— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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