Meaning of circumstantialness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or fact of being circumstantial; a reliance on incidental or inconclusive details.
   uncountable
2. Circumstantiality; an excessive or fastidious attention to minor details.
   uncountable

Examples

“In fact, then, the evidence would be laid bare to the people of Southern Oregon, and they would know⟳ just why one man can be convicted of murder⟳ in the first degree, and "hung by the neck until he is dead," on strong circumstantial evidence; and why another crime, of the same foul magnitude, is committed, and the courts fail⟳ to find⟳ the author when the circumstantial evidence that made the first man stretch⟳ hemp was far less convicting in its circumstantialness than was the case that the blind Goddess of Justice could not find⟳ guilty; […]”

“I reviewed the remaining ſix hundred lines of the twenty-third book of the Iliad. It is a fine picture of the manners of the heroic ages: the games celebrated at the funeral of Patroclus contain⟳ a great variety of both their civil and religious customs, related with a clearneſs and a circumstantialneſs very diſagreeable to the taſte of a true commentator.”

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