circumstantiality

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Willing as we were to believe our own side to be the most truthful, it was not always possible to ignore the circumstantiality of our opponents.

From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by Morse, John

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

From Gordon Keith by Page, Thomas Nelson

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

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)