Contingency
[kən'tɪndʒ(ə)nsɪ] or [kən'tɪndʒənsi]
Definition
(n.) Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
(n.) The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
(n.) An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
(n.) An adjunct or accessory.
(n.) A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Accidentalness, fortuity, uncertainty.[2]. Casualty, accident, incident, occurrence, event.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACCIDENT]
Typist: Penelope
Examples
- The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She was as unconcerned at that contingency as a goddess at a lack of linen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Alcibiades & Company that Justinian was far too wide awake not to have thought of this contingency, and had made his preparations in consequence. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- General Scott at once began the preparation of orders, regulations and laws in view of this contingency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Its framers never dreamed of such a contingency occurring. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By all means avoid the contingency of a foot race to see which, you or Hood, can beat to the Ohio. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To provide for this last and most possible contingency, several ferry-boats of the largest class ought to be immediately provided. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Your estimates for this contingency should be made at once. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The latter contingency seemed improbable, yet Lily was not without a sense of uneasiness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In New York the question of permanency was of paramount importance, and the other contingencies were sure to arise as well as conditions more easy to imagine than to forestall. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So many strange contingencies are improbable in the highest degree. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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