Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In regard to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.
- Minutely; exactly; with every circumstance or particular.
Wiktionary
- adv. in a circumstantial manner
- adv. regarding circumstance
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.
- adv. In every circumstance or particular; minutely.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. insofar as the circumstances are concerned
- adv. according to circumstances
- adv. in minute detail
- adv. without advance planning
Examples
“And some, like me, are what I call "circumstantially infertile.”
“Well," cried Mr. Lake, "all I can say is that I have had my suspicions since last night, and now I am certain, that is to say circumstantially certain.”
“It is true that Guandique, who has since been indicted and will stand trial in October, is connected to the crime only circumstantially, but he seems to have repeatedly boasted in prison to fellow inmates about killing Chandra Levy.”
“Again, whether or not any such overt decision was made by whites in this regard, the result was the same -- a gradual uprooting of blacks, circumstantially forcing them out of the District.”
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“Change can seem painful in the short term, but, if you are willing to embrace it proactively, its lasting impact will nearly always be physically, spiritually, intellectually, and circumstantially transformative.”
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“There's a difference between saying Addabbo sand-bagged gay marriage on purpose, or circumstantially because they were called upon first to cast their votes.”
“When we buy into positive thinking, we are drifting into a kind of denial of 'the way it is' that sooner or later will have us wake up one day to the realization that we gave away our power and our future possibilities to a circumstantially determined view of life.”
“This woman, it seems, was very close to her husband (Ant. 13: 424), as one may infer from two episodes in which she is circumstantially mentioned.”
“Well, this myth has been circumstantially verified as being true (via ectoplasmosis) – but only because there was a law passed saying they were illegal.”
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“Individuals move up and down through the averages all the time, such that the “rich” and “poor” today are often circumstantially different people than they were 10 or 20 years ago.”
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone has to list them.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about adverbs here.
Reesetee's list Conjunctive Adv...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2243 more...
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