circumstantiality

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And Mrs. Anderson forthwith proceeded to detail the particulars of the quarrel and subsequent encounter, with a minuteness and circumstantiality which, we fear, the reader would think rather tedious were we here to repeat.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

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)

"There is about that a picturesque air of circumstantiality, combined with a fanciful inaccuracy, equalled only by things one reads or hears with reference to my right hon. friend, and revered leader."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various

This myth comes to us from Germany—at all events, Mr. R. A. Proctor traced it there with much circumstantiality.

From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin

The account of the conception and birth of Servius Tullius is curious from its circumstantiality.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas