Meaning of circumstance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event
2. Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event.
   countable, uncountable
3. An event; a fact; a particular incident, occurrence, or condition (status)
4. An event; a fact; a particular incident, occurrence, or condition (status).
   countable, uncountable
5. Evasive or indirect language; circumlocution.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
6. Evasive or indirect language; circumlocution
7. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
   countable, uncountable
8. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings
9. To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources

Equivalents

Examples

“The report should focus on to the current circumstances of the organisation, to help us find a way to grow in the future.”

“She went missing in somewhat spooky circumstances.”

“A victim of circumstance.”

“She performed well under/in/given the circumstances.”

“The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.”

“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”

“I have ſeen Two or Three antique Buſts of Alexander in the ſame Air and Poſture, and am apt to think the Sculptor had in his Thoughts the Conqueror's weeping for new Worlds, or ſome other the like Circumſtance of his History.”

“Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child.”

“Right, you are in the right, and therefore / I holde it meet without more circumſtance at all, / Wee ſhake hands and part; […]”

“But he (as louing his owne pride, and purpoſes) / Euades them, with a bumbaſt Circumſtance, / Horribly ſtufft with Epithites of warre,”

“Old Ger. You put vs to a needeleſſe labour ſir, / To runne and winde about for circumſtance, / When the plaine word, I thanke you, would have ſeru'd.”

“She was born into comfortable circumstances.”

“When men are eaſy in their circumſtances, they are naturally enemies to innovations: […]”

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