HAPPENSTANCE


Meaning of HAPPENSTANCE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And they both landed by happenstance rather than design in the Motor City.

Dunning and Sasbach, two inconspicuous villages which happenstance has made part of my experience.

In deep antiquity, vast, sprawling empires rose and fell, usually the result of happenstance rather than deliberation.

In this happenstance , faithful friend Lobo, these white ladies would pay anything for milk.

No, happenstance will never make for beauty.

They have, through happenstance , and the nature of urban life that crunches lives and experiences together, simply become entangled.

Through either grace or happenstance , the architecture of the 140-year-old building embodies the spirit of the contemporary parish.

We go to any lengths to avoid such a happenstance in baseball.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.