Illustration vs Circumstance - What's the difference?
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The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
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A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration [...] is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend scale (whole life) or current interest rates and current costs of insurance (universal life)." taken from http://www.evaluatelifeinsurance.org
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That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
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* Addison
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Circumlocution; detail.
* Shakespeare
Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
* Addison
To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.
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Illustration is a related term of circumstance.
As nouns the difference between illustration and circumstance
is that illustration is illustration while 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.illustration
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(wikipedia illustration)Noun
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circumstance
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Alternative forms
* circumstaunceNoun
(en noun)- The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
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- The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history.
- Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child.
- So without more circumstance at all / I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.
- 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)- Tidings had in some shape reached is ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.