Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CIR-CUM-STAN-TIAL'I-TY
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CIR-CUM-STAN-TIAL'I-TY, n.
- The appendage of circumstances; the state of any thing as modified by circumstances. – Johnson.
- Particularity in exhibiting circumstances; minuteness; as, the circumstantiality of a story or description.
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