Circumstance

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Circumstance or circumstances can refer to:

• Rhetoric
  • Circumstances (rhetoric)
• Legal terms
  • Aggravating circumstance
  • Attendant circumstance
  • Exigent circumstance
  • Extenuating circumstances
• Literature
  • Circumstance (short story)
• Others jojo
  • Special Circumstances
  • Pomp and Circumstance Marches
  • Communities of Circumstance
  • Circumstances (song), a song by the Canadian band Rush

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Noun

circumstance (plural circumstances)

1. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
2. An event; a fact; a particular incident.
   • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 20:

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

3. Circumlocution; detail.
4. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

Derived terms

• under no circumstance
• under the circumstances

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