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Circumstance vs Circumstantiate - What's the difference?

circumstance | circumstantiate |

As verbs the difference between circumstance and circumstantiate

is that circumstance is to place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources while circumstantiate is to describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence.

As a noun circumstance

is that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.

circumstance

English

Alternative forms

* circumstaunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
  • * Washington Irving
    • The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”}}
  • An event; a fact; a particular incident.
  • * Addison
    • The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history.
  • * 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 20:
    • Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child.
  • Circumlocution; detail.
  • * Shakespeare
    • So without more circumstance at all / I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.
  • Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
  • * Addison
    • When men are easy in their circumstances , they are naturally enemies to innovations.

    Derived terms

    {{der3, attendant circumstance , extenuating circumstances , under no circumstance , under the circumstances}}

    Verb

    (circumstanc)
  • To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.
  • * 1858 , , Chapter 8:
    • Tidings had in some shape reached is ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.
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    • circumstantiate

    English

    Verb

    (circumstantiat)
  • To describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence
    • Neither will time permit to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. — State Trials (1661).
  • To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
    • If the act were otherwise circumstantiated , it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly. — Bramhall.