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- noun Plural form of
circumstantiality .
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Examples
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Macaulay tempted more of them to declaim: if Mill set an example of patience, tolerance, and fair examination of hostile opinions, Macaulay did much to encourage oracular arrogance, and a rather too thrasonical complacency; if Mill sowed ideas of the great economic, political, and moral bearings of the forces of society, Macaulay trained a taste for superficial particularities, trivial circumstantialities of local colour, and all the paraphernalia of the pseudo-picturesque.
Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay John Morley 1880
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Of these facts ÆGROTUS is entirely ignorant, and therefore proceeds by the following extraordinary circumstantialities to uphold it.
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Of course, persons acquainted with the subject have heard the story before, though not with all the circumstantialities now given.
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But, being a philosopher, James submitted to his bed of thorns without a murmur; Nanse and I soothing his calamities, as we best could, by a bowl of sheep-head broth; a rizzar'd haddock; a tankard of broo-and-bread; a caller egg; a swine's trotter; and other circumstantialities needless to repeat -- as occasion required.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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But, being a philosopher, James submitted to his bed of thorns without a murmur; Nanse and I soothing his calamities, as we best could, by a bowl of sheep-head broth; a rizzar'd haddock; a tankard of broo-and-bread; a caller egg; a swine's trotter; and other circumstantialities needless to repeat -- as occasion required.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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There was much discussion at the time, in some of the public journals, upon the possibility of reconciling these incidents with other circumstantialities of the case, supposing that only one man had been concerned in the affair.
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
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But to any casual reader, whose attention had never been attracted to the circumstantialities of Pope's satiric sketches, this assumption would be startling; and it would have done him a service to offer a few exemplifications of the vice attributed to Pope, both as substantiating the charge, and as investing it with some little amusement.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Too probably, except in the case of here and there some specially intelligent or specially influential sepoy officer, indispensable as a go-between to the non-military conspirators moving in darkness behind the rebel army, nothing at all was communicated to the bulk of the privates, beyond the mere detail of movements required by the varying circumstantialities of each particular case.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Now let us descend into the circumstantialities of the case, explaining what may have been obscure to the general reader.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Without those circumstantialities it would not have been allowable to make a philosophical inquirer of Hamlet, on which trait, however, the meaning of the whole is made to rest.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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