Both Uses of
coincidence
in
The House of Mirth
- For a moment the irony of the coincidence tinged Lily's disgust with a confused sense of triumph.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- In Gerty Farish's sitting-room, whither a hansom had carried the two friends, Lily dropped into a chair with a faint sound of laughter: it struck her as a humorous coincidence that her aunt's legacy should so nearly represent the amount of her debt to Trenor.†
Chpt 2.4
Definition:
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(coincidence) a situation where two things happened at the same time or in the same way by chance even though it was unlikely
(for example, if two students in the same class met by accident while visiting another country)