circumstantiality

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Told as it is with Defoe's inimitable circumstantiality, she was so far from understanding it as to rather more than half believe it.

From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

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

From Gordon Keith by Page, Thomas Nelson

I had learnt every circumstance from Wingrove himself, and was able to set them forth with all the circumstantiality of truth itself.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

"But the better to vamp up a show of reality, "The tale must be told with circumstantiality, "What vessels were conquered by Britain's bold sons, "Their quotas of men, and their number of guns.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

He sets forth the title with great circumstantiality, but no such book exists or ever did exist.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John