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circumstance

noun
/ˈsɜːkəmst(ə)ns/UK/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/US/ˈsɜːkəmstæns/

Etymology

From Middle English circumstaunce, from Old French circonstance, from Latin circumstantia.

  1. derived from circumstantia
  2. derived from circonstance
  3. inherited from circumstaunce

Definitions

  1. Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event.

    • 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.

  2. An event

    An event; a fact; a particular incident, occurrence, or condition (status).

    • 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.

  3. Evasive or indirect language

    Evasive or indirect language; circumlocution.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Condition in regard to worldly estate

      Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

      • She was born into comfortable circumstances.
      • When men are eaſy in their circumſtances, they are naturally enemies to innovations: […]

    2. To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.

      • Frank muttered something. Tidings had in some shape reached his ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.
      • While also taxing Ferrein with the same motives, Diderot's account of his doings is much more circumstanced than La Mettrie's, and also much more amusing, thanks to the interpolation of the «bijoux» motif.

The neighborhood

Derived

aggravating circumstance, attendant circumstance, attenuating circumstance, exigent circumstance, extenuating circumstance, extenuating circumstances, mitigating circumstance, mitigating circumstances, pomp and circumstance, under no circumstance, under the circumstances

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at circumstance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at circumstance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at circumstance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA