circumstance

Roget category 8

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.1. Existence
›› 1.1.4. Modal existence

#8. Circumstance

noun

circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point — terms — regime — footing, standing, status.
occasion, juncture, conjunctive — contingency etc. (event) 151.
predicament — emergence, emergency — exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push — occurrence — turning point.
bearings, how the land lies.
surroundings, context, environment 232 — location 184.
contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475 — causation 153, attribution 155.

adjective

circumstantial — given, conditional, provisional — critical — modal — contingent, incidental — adventitious etc. (extrinsic) 6 — limitative^†.

adverb

in the circumstances, under the circumstances etc. n., the circumstances, conditions etc. 7 — thus, in such wise.
accordingly — that being the case, such being the case, in view of the circumstances — that being so, sith^†, since, seeing that.
as matters stand — as things go, as times go.
conditionally, provided, if, in case — if so, if so be, if it be so — depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions — if it so happen, if it so turn out — in the event of — in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event — provisionally, unless, without.
according to circumstances, according to the occasion — as it may happen, as it may turn out, as it may be — as the case may be, as the wind blows — pro re nata [Lat.].

phrase

yet are my sins not those of circumstance" [Lytton].

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