circumstantiality
Americannoun
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the quality of being circumstantial; minuteness; fullness of detail.
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a circumstance; a detail.
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Psychiatry. a pattern of speech that seems to wander because of excessive detail but eventuallyreaches its goal idea.
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Etymology
Origin of circumstantiality
First recorded in 1725–35; circumstantial + -ity
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"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
Written nearly a hundred and thirty years after the supposed events which it narrates, this story is damned by its circumstantiality.
From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
Notwithstanding the gravity and circumstantiality of these charges, Bessie Roy marvellously escaped the allotted doom, and was pronounced innocent.
From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
Then followed a description of the process, narrated with horrible circumstantiality.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred
He relates with great circumstantiality that “after the Military Commission had tried and sentenced the parties” he “prepared the form of the petition to the President.”
From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by DeWitt, David Miller
But from these narrower questions, directed to circumstantialities local and transitory, we wish to draw the reader's attention upon certain other questions larger and more philosophic.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Of course, persons acquainted with the subject have heard the story before, though not with all the circumstantialities now given.
From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
Of these facts �grotus is entirely ignorant, and therefore proceeds by the following extraordinary circumstantialities to uphold it.
From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
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