All 4 Uses
coincidence
in
Great Expectations
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- Still, the coincidence of our being together on the coach, was sufficiently strange to fill me with a dread that some other coincidence might at any moment connect me, in his hearing, with my name.†
p. 243.1 *coincidence = a situation where things happened at the same time by chance even though it was unlikely
- Still, the coincidence of our being together on the coach, was sufficiently strange to fill me with a dread that some other coincidence might at any moment connect me, in his hearing, with my name.†
p. 243.1
- "My dear Handel," Herbert would say to me, in all sincerity, if you will believe me, those very words were on my lips, by a strange coincidence."†
p. 292.9
- His being my lawyer, and his being the lawyer of your patron is a coincidence.†
p. 381.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(coincidence) a situation where two things happened at the same time or in the same way by chance even though it was unlikely
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely coincidence can refer to things coinciding (occurring or operating at the same place or time). For example:
- the coincidence of a target and cross hairs
- the coincidence of entangled particles in quantum physics