circumstance – English noun declension

English noun forms of circumstance

Noun: circumstance
Singularcircumstance
Pluralcircumstances

Sample Sentences

  • The report should focus on to the current circumstances of the organisation, to help us find a way to grow in the future.
  • She went missing in somewhat spooky circumstances.
  • A victim of circumstance.
  • She performed well under/in/given the circumstances.
  • The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. [1819, Washington Irving, The Broken Heart:]
  • 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. […] [1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace, →OL:]
  • I have ſeen Two or Three antique Buſts of Alexander in the ſame Air and Poſture, and am apt to think the Sculptor had in his Thoughts the Conqueror's weeping for new Worlds, or ſome other the like Circumſtance of his History. [1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Florence”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 413:]
  • Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child. [1834, David Crockett, chapter I, in A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: E[dward] L[awrence] Carey and A[braham] Hart; Boston, Mass.: Allen & Ticknor, →OCLC, page 20:]
  • Right, you are in the right, and therefore / I holde it meet without more circumſtance at all, / Wee ſhake hands and part; […] [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:]
  • But he (as louing his owne pride, and purpoſes) / Euades them, with a bumbaſt Circumſtance, / Horribly ſtufft with Epithites of warre, [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 310, column 1:]
  • Old Ger. You put vs to a needeleſſe labour ſir, / To runne and winde about for circumſtance, / When the plaine word, I thanke you, would have ſeru'd. [1614, John Cooke, Greene's Tu Quoque, London: John Trundle, page 83:]
  • She was born into comfortable circumstances.
  • When men are eaſy in their circumſtances, they are naturally enemies to innovations: […] [1716 May 24 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 42. Sunday, May 14. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC, page 514:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.
3. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
4. Latin circus
5. Latin circum
6. Latin circum-
7. Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
11. Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti
12. Proto-Italic *staējō
13. Proto-Italic *staēō
14. Latin stō
15. Latin circumstō
16. Latin circumstāns
17. Latin circumstāntiaslbor.
18. Old French circonstanceder.
19. Middle English circumstaunce
20. English circumstance
21. From Middle English circumstaunce, from Old French circonstance, from Latin circumstantia. See: Middle English Nouns 'circumstaunce', Latin Nouns 'circumstantia'.