Circumstance vs Unlachrymose - What's the difference?

circumstance | unlachrymose |

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.

As a verb circumstance

is to place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.

As an adjective unlachrymose is

not lachrymose.

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.

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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.

unlachrymose

English

Adjective

(-)

Not lachrymose.

# Free from dejection and melancholy; not vexed or weighed down by circumstances.

#* 1852 : The New Monthly Magazine , volume 95, page 324

The only articulate sounds that could be distinguished, were the impatient exclamations of hungry soldiers, clamouring for their schnapps and suppers, and throwing the toiling sutlers into a frenzy of bewilderment.?The spectacle, too, was of an equally joyous and unlachrymose description.

# Tearless; not given to crying.

#* 1853 : Notes and Queries , volume 7, page 97

When the devil was going out of the possessed person, he was supposed to do so with reluctance: “The spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.” (St. Mark, ix. 26.)?The tears and struggles of the infant would therefore be a convincing proof that the Evil One had departed.?In Ireland (as every clergyman knows) nurses will decide the matter by pinching the baby, rather than allow him to remain silent and unlachrymose .

#* 1944 : Franklin Pierce Adams, Nods and Becks , page 126 (Whittlesey House)

And as to the slumber of infants, it is no guess of mine that to sleep like a baby is not always to lie quiet and unlachrymose all night.

# Unsentimental.

## Unamenable to appeals of emotion.

##* 1975 : The Spectator , volume 235, part 2, page 13 (F.C. Westley)

But the really dangerous people would be the servants, la valetaille et la piétaille , the cold-eyed, unimpressionable, unlachrymose , and, when encountered in a corridor, insolent observers of Rousseau’s magisterial performances.

## Not schmaltzy; expressed without gratuitous sorrow.

##* 1983 : Jean Pierre Coursodon et alii'', ''American Directors , volume 1, page 112 (McGraw-Hill; ISBN 0070132615, 9780070132610)

His films with Temple are surprisingly light and unlachrymose .

##* 1984 : Alan Blyth and Malcolm Walker [eds.], Opera on Record , volume 2, page 126 (Hutchinson)

Ezio Pinza (DB 828; GEMM 162/3), recorded in 1924, offers unlachrymose singing of the lovely aria ‘Cinta di fiori’.

##* 1989 : Gareth Reeves, T.S. Eliot: A Virgilian Poet , page 156 (Macmillan; ISBN 033344390X, 9780333443903)

For instance, there is the sparely stated consolation of the poem’s concluding paragraph, or the sinewy articulation of the lines in ‘The Dry Salvages’ I distinguishing the sea’s ‘different voices’, and culminating in unlachrymose sympathy for the ‘anxious worried women’: an effect achieved by the way in which their anxiety is syntactically submerged, and thereby enhanced, in the unwinding sentence delineating time’s relentlessness.

##* 1990 : Joel Flegler, Fanfare'', volume 13, issues 5–6, page 368 (''sub nomine sui )

The off-handed elegance and freedom of Dino Borgioli’s Duke make him seem utterly charming and irresistible. His use of legato and the sweetness he can call upon are worthy of an unlachrymose Gigli.

# Unmournful; free from lamentation.

#* 1998 : Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish , page 54 (Knopf; ISBN 0375403892, 9780375403897)

I conclude that the kaddish, in Rashi’s day, played only its traditional role, in and out of the context of mourning. It was still a liturgical corollary to a pedagogical activity. Indeed, in Rashi’s reading, the liturgy of mourning that the kaddish accompanied was itself not construed as an expression of mourning, even if it was expressed by mourners. “Neither a lament nor a dirge”: this seems odd. In this unlachrymose interpretation of the prayer of justification, Rashi seems to have divorced language from reality. Of course these words are a lament and a dirge! Just see where they are said.