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/ˈəndər ðə sˈərkəmstˌænsəz/ Listen

noun

circumstance n.

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. "The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened."

An event; a fact; a particular incident. "The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqueror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history."

Circumlocution; detail. (Obs.) "So without more circumstance at all I hold it fit that we shake hands and part."

pl. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings. "When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."

Not a circumstance, of no account. (Colloq.)

Under the circumstances, taking all things into consideration.

Synonyms: Event; occurrence; incident; situation; condition; position; fact; detail; item. See Event.

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"Under the circumstances" Quotes from Famous Books

... days Ramon spent quietly and systematically drinking whisky. This he did partly because he had a notion that it was an appropriate thing to do under the circumstances, and partly because he had a genuine need for something to jolt his mind out of its rut of misery. He was not sociable in his cups, and did not seek company of either sex, inviting a man to drink with ...

— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson

... under the circumstances——But it is very little! I am sure you must know that it is. Perhaps, Mr. Jan, we can come to some arrangement by which I take the larger share for the present. Say that, for ...

— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood

... been lost. This, under the circumstances, was a serious misfortune; but their own lives had been miraculously preserved; and none of them was now disposed to find fault with fortune ...

— The Giraffe Hunters • Mayne Reid

... longer. Under the circumstances few men would, as he had a definite assurance that there was nothing dishonourable to be done. A little courage, a little danger, perhaps, and he could hold up his head before the world; he could return to his desk to-morrow with the passion flowers over ...

— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White

... Madame de Longueville from Muenster, there was already a ferment in the minds of the Parisians, of which the Regent took little heed. The Fronde cabal was then brooding in the dark. When the rebellion, formed by Gondi, broke out at last under the circumstances just narrated, Madame de Longueville, alone of all the princesses of the blood, did not accompany Anne of Austria in her flight to Rueil. The Duchess strove her utmost to strengthen, by the concurrence of her entire family, the faction whose fortunes she had embraced ...

— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

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