Both Uses of
contingent
in
The House of Mirth
- At any rate, she felt herself so completely in command of the situation that she yielded to a sense of security in which all fear of Mr. Rosedale, and of the difficulties on which that fear was contingent, vanished beyond the edge of thought.†
Chpt 1.2
- This surprising event, coinciding too completely with her meeting with Dorset to be regarded as contingent upon it, had yet immediately struck Lily with a vague sense of foreboding.†
Chpt 2.6 *
Definition:
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(contingent as in: the Canadian contingent) a sub-group united by something in commonin various senses, including:
- a squad of soldiers sent to do a job
- members of an association at a convention of many associations
- all the women at a meeting with women and men