HAPPENSTANCE


Meaning of HAPPENSTANCE in English

If you say that something happened by ~, you mean that it happened because of certain circumstances, although it was not planned by anyone. (WRITTEN)

I came to live at the farm by ~.

N-UNCOUNT: also a N, oft by N

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