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- noun Obsolete form of
circumstance .
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Examples
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In the makyng of _Ethopoeia_, lette it be plaine, and with - out any large circumstaunce.
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An other circumstaunce of a thynge, is the place, whose qualitie oftentimes maketh the faute either greter or lesser: as to steale an holye thing out of an holy place, is worse then some other kynde of theft.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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He constant of mynde, fell into despayre, and abandoninge all his frends and liuing, repayred to the Pyrene Mountaynes, where he led a sauage lyfe for certayne moneths, and afterwardes knowne by one of hys freendes, was (by marueylous circumstaunce) reconciled to hys froward mistresse, and maryed.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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¶ We may also begyn at the nature of the tyme that we speke in/or at the nature of the place/or at any other circumstaunce or thynge incident.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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The pro - fyte of the dede/or the commoditie may be fet at the circumstaunce of it.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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Poet] and after the same rate euery sort and maner of businesse or affaire or action hath his decencie and vndecencie, either for the time or place or person or some other circumstaunce, as Priests to be sober and sad, a
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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