circumstance
/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ verb C2- To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.
He/she/it circumstances · Past circumstanced · Past participle circumstanced · -ing form circumstancing
Verb forms
- Base form
- circumstance
- He/she/it
- circumstances
- Past
- circumstanced
- Past participle
- circumstanced
- -ing form
- circumstancing
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But I am afraid you are giving it a turn which that gentleman did by no means intend; for he would certainly think the better of me if, under such a circumstance, I were to give a flat denial, and ride off as fast as I could.”
We may as well wait, perhaps, till the circumstance occurs, before we discuss the discretion of his behaviour thereupon.
As a clergyman, moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families within the reach of my influence; and on these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures of good-will are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered olive branch.
It was necessary to make this circumstance a matter of pleasure, because on such occasions it is the etiquette; but no one was less likely than Mrs.
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