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contingently

Variant of contingent

adjective

  1. Obsolete touching; tangential
  2. that may or may not happen; possible
  3. happening by chance; accidental; fortuitous
  4. unpredictable because dependent on chance
  5. dependent (on or upon something uncertain); conditional
  6. Logic true only under certain conditions or in certain contexts; not always or necessarily true
  7. Philos. not subject to determinism; free

noun

  1. Now Rare an accidental or chance happening
  2. a share or quota, as of troops, laborers, delegates, etc.
  3. a group forming part of a larger group

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