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Circumstances   /sˈərkəmstˌænsəz/  /sˈərkəmstˌænsɪz/   Listen
Circumstances

noun
1.
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).  Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion.  "Deserved a better fate" , "Has a happy lot" , "The luck of the Irish" , "A victim of circumstances" , "Success that was her portion"
2.
A person's financial situation (good or bad).


Circumstance

noun
1.
A condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity.
2.
The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event.  Synonyms: context, setting.
3.
Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision.  Synonyms: condition, consideration.
4.
Formal ceremony about important occasions.



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"Circumstances" Quotes from Famous Books



... not finish her sentence, for she saw Celia was really angry. Yet she had no idea of hurting her feelings. She had tried to accommodate herself to her new circumstances. She had observed a great deal, and had never been in the habit of asking questions. Celia was disturbed at having it supposed that she did not know how to read; therefore it must be a very important thing to know how to read, and she determined she must learn. She applied to the Doctor. He was astonished ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various
... the English Colonies in America, although it evoked no disloyalty, had a strong and unforeseen influence upon the equally English colony in Ireland. It would have been strange had it not done so. The circumstances of the two colonies—looking at Ireland merely in that light—were in many respects all but identical. If England could tax America without the consent of its representatives, then, equally it could ...
— The Story Of Ireland • Emily Lawless
... day, Robert and Mary Davis prayerfully and reverently began a study on the New Testament church. They had not, as we have intimated before, made any particular effort to ascertain what the Scriptures had to say about this subject. It was not until circumstances forced the issue upon them that any particular concern about it entered into their minds. On this day, however, they began a most earnest investigation of the matter. They had determined beforehand to accept whatever the Scriptures ...
— Around Old Bethany • Robert Lee Berry
... observed. "That accounts for the mask. But I am still a little in the dark. Under the circumstances, it is quite impossible that you should have ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... destitute of all such things as the law allows to the dead, and all over herself besmeared with the blood of her husband's wounds, and bewailing the great affliction she was under, her daughter lying by her also; and nothing else was heard in these her circumstances but her complaint of Caius, as if he had not regarded what she had often told him of beforehand; which words of hers were taken in a different sense even at that time, and are now esteemed equally ambiguous by those that hear of them, ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus


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