circumstancing

Variant of circumstance

noun

  1. a fact or event accompanying another, either incidentally or as an essential condition or determining factor: circumstances alter cases
  2. any happening or fact; event
  3. conditions surrounding and affecting a person, esp. financial conditions: in comfortable circumstances
  4. chance; luck: circumstance would have it so
  5. ceremony; show: pomp and circumstance
    1. accompanying or surrounding detail
    2. fullness of detail

Origin: OFr < L circumstantia, a standing around, condition < circumstare < circum, around + stare, stand

transitive verb circumstanced, circumstancing

to place in certain circumstances

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