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contingence - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun
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noun geometry Contact ; touching.noun noun tangent ; a contingent line; a tangent line.noun Contingency .
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Condemning theory because it lends itself to certain political doctrines is also inappropriate as binding it to a particular contingence is violence to it.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
Condemning theory because it lends itself to certain political doctrines is also inappropriate as binding it to a particular contingence is violence to it.
Philosophy facilitates the wayfarer’s subsistence Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
The only course on which he could determine, was to stand by the helm like a resolute pilot, watch every contingence , do his best to weather each reef and shoal, and commit the rest to heaven and his patroness.
The Monastery 2008
Whilst they attribute all to natural causes, [6646] contingence of all things, as
Anatomy of Melancholy 2007
An authentic love should assume the contingence of the other; that is to say, his lacks, his limitations, and his basic gratuitousness.
Beauvoir's Positive Side 2006
Poland now says it will send some 1,000 troops to boost NATO contingence there.
CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2006 2006
You can do it much more with large contingence of Marines.
CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2001 2001
Pinar del Rio and we have told him that he will have all the needed resources to increase tobacco production at any cost and regardless of any contingence .
FIDEL CASTRO'S ADDRESS AT MAY DAY CEREMONIES 1971
In this manner, we will be able to face any contingence .
1970 SUGAR HARVEST RALLY 1969
It is interesting to note that, following St. Anselm's "Monologium", he takes the human soul as the first element of observation as to the contingence of nature, and thence rises to God.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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