All 6 Uses of
contingency
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- You knew what married life would be like, and shouldn't have entered it if you feared these contingencies."†
Chpt 40-42
- Visions of several unhappy contingencies which might arise from this delay flitted before him.†
Chpt 40-42 *
- The shutters were not closed, nor was any blind or curtain drawn over the window, neither robbery nor observation being a contingency which could do much injury to the occupant of the domicile.†
Chpt 43-45
- For several years the stream had not spouted so far from the tower as it was doing on this night, and such a contingency had been over-looked.†
Chpt 46-48
- She belonged to him: the certainties of that position were so well defined, and the reasonable probabilities of its issue so bounded that she could not speculate on contingencies.†
Chpt 46-48
- To meet these contingencies, there was frequently provided, to accompany the flocks from the remoter points, a pony and waggon into which the weakly ones were taken for the remainder of the journey.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(contingency) something that might happen -- especially something that it is hoped will not happen
or more rarely:
something available in case of an event -- especially an event that it is hoped will not occur