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circumstantiality

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cir·cum·stan·ti·al·i·ty  (sûrkm-stnsh-l-t)
n. pl. cir·cum·stan·ti·al·i·ties
1. The quality of being fully or minutely detailed.
2. A particular detail or circumstance.


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Counties, towns, hilly ribs and ridges, wide stretches of green meadow, great forest tracts, winding streams, a dozen blue lakes, a block of busy steamboats--we saw all this little world in unique circumstantiality of detail--saw it just as the birds see it--and all reduced to the smallest of scales and as sharply worked out and finished as a steel engraving.
In due course a legend arose of such circumstantiality that the wise historian would hesitate to attack it.
Mrs Chivery derived a surprising force of emphasis from the foregoing circumstantiality and repetition.
 
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