circumstantiality

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Written nearly a hundred and thirty years after the supposed events which it narrates, this story is damned by its circumstantiality.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

"Why, he told me the story with the utmost circumstantiality."

From Gordon Keith by Page, Thomas Nelson

There is, however, a strange story, told with much circumstantiality, which gives an elaborate but incomprehensible account of a tragic underplot in connection with him.

From What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence by Gerard, John

Then with the painstaking circumstantiality of two old schoolmates luxuriating in memories, we talked over the tobacco-tag craze which swept through our school one winter.

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert

He sets forth the title with great circumstantiality, but no such book exists or ever did exist.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John