Happenstantially
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 By happenstance; occurring due to random chance. not-comparable, rare
"1975 January, Andrejs Plakans, "Peasant Farmsteads and Households in the Baltic Littoral, 1797", in Raymond Grew et al (eds.), Comparative Studies in Society and History: An International Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, volume 17, number 1, page 19, The work force norm imposed on adults the need to join in a common effort aimed at survival, which was a condition qualitatively different from a group of coresident individuals having similar or identical occupations happenstantially."
Example
More examples"1975 January, Andrejs Plakans, "Peasant Farmsteads and Households in the Baltic Littoral, 1797", in Raymond Grew et al (eds.), Comparative Studies in Society and History: An International Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, volume 17, number 1, page 19, The work force norm imposed on adults the need to join in a common effort aimed at survival, which was a condition qualitatively different from a group of coresident individuals having similar or identical occupations happenstantially."
Etymology
From happenstance (a blend of happening and circumstance), by analogy with circumstantially.
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