circumstantiality

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The speeches abound in details which may be accepted as authentic, either because there is no reason for misrepresentation or on account of their circumstantiality.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

It was not a greater circumstantiality of statement than was demanded, but greater directness,—that it should be relieved of what was unessential to its purpose, tending only to obscure it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

I had learnt every circumstance from Wingrove himself, and was able to set them forth with all the circumstantiality of truth itself.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

For it is only as language that the picture or the statue avails anything, and this circumstantiality of expression is tolerable only so long as it is the only expression.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various

The circumstantiality of the account was equally horrible and amusing.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker