circumstances

Noun

circumstance (countable and uncountable, plural circumstances)

1. Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event.
   • The report should focus on to the current circumstances of the organisation, to help us find a way to grow in the future.
2. An event; a fact; a particular incident, occurrence, or condition (status).
   • I have ſeen Two or Three antique Buſts of Alexander in the ſame Air and Poſture, and am apt to think the Sculptor had in his Thoughts the Conqueror's weeping for new Worlds, or ſome other the like Circumſtance of his History.1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Florence”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 413
3. (archaic) Evasive or indirect language; circumlocution.
   • Right, you are in the right, and therefore / I holde it meet without more circumſtance at all, / Wee ſhake hands and part; […]c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell...
4. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
   • She was born into comfortable circumstances.

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