"circumstance" meaning in Englisch

See circumstance in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-us-circumstance.ogg , En-us-circumstances.ogg Forms: the circumstance [singular], the circumstances [plural]
  1. Umstand
    Sense id: de-circumstance-en-noun-bYCXSEok
  2. Verhältnisse (Pl.)
    Sense id: de-circumstance-en-noun-4W7ORn4U
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (Umstand): Umstand (Deutsch)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "Sir Walter Scott; Tales of My Landlord,.: Count Robert of Paris; Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Whittaker and Co., London., 1832 Google Books",
          "text": "\"It was with this accommodating spirit towards Alexius, which, for many different and complicated reasons, had now animated most of the crusaders, that the chiefs consented to a measure which, in other circumstances, they would probably have refused, as undue to the Greeks, and dishonourable to themselves. \""
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