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circumstanced
Variant of circumstance
noun
- a fact or event accompanying another, either incidentally or as an essential condition or determining factor: circumstances alter cases
- any happening or fact; event
- conditions surrounding and affecting a person, esp. financial conditions: in comfortable circumstances
- chance; luck: circumstance would have it so
- ceremony; show: pomp and circumstance
- accompanying or surrounding detail
- fullness of detail
transitive verb circumstanced, circumstancing
to place in certain circumstances
Related Forms:
- circumstanced adjective
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