happenchance

[ hap-uhn-chans, -chahns ]

noun

1. happenstance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of happenchance¹

First recorded in 1875–80; happen + chance

Example Sentences

A good deal of the night has gone, anyway, and I guess we can stick out the rest of it in Happenchance.

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Leaving the old house, they hurried to the spring, which they had located on their previous visit to Happenchance.

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What business has Barzy Blunt got around the old camp of Happenchance, where the professor's claim is located?

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Why, you remember how we left Happenchance in such a hurry, the time we went to the place and found the prof?

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The way this Brady falls afoul of us don't look like a happenchance, and yet I can't make anything else out of it.

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