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circumstantiality

[sur-kuhm-stan-shee-al-i-tee] / ˌsɜr kəmˌstæn ʃiˈæl ɪ ti /


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When Bach's recital with all its circumstantiality and its simulated completeness of strange and illuminating details became known, there lacked but little to hailing the imaginative scamp as a deliverer.

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various

The circumstantiality of the account was equally horrible and amusing.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis

Shakespeare has portrayed ideal scenes in the life of Julius Cæsar with more vividness and circumstantiality than any authentic historian of Cæsar's age.

From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

"Why, he told me the story with the utmost circumstantiality."

From Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page

Their readiness, their resources, their promptitude, the elaborate circumstantiality of their lies are astonishing.

From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Isaac George Briggs

But from these narrower questions, directed to circumstantialities local and transitory, we wish to draw the reader's attention upon certain other questions larger and more philosophic.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

Of course, persons acquainted with the subject have heard the story before, though not with all the circumstantialities now given.

From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell




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