Contingency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTINGENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an event (as an emergency) that may but is not certain to occur, also CONTINGENCE
• a future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty
• a provision for a possible event or circumstance
• an incidental expense
• the absence of certainty in events
• the absence of necessity; the fact of being so without having to be so.
• Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
• The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
• An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
• An adjunct or accessory.
• A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
• a possible event or occurrence or result
• the state of being contingent on something
• an event (as an emergency) that may but is not certain to occur
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being contingent

Words related to CONTINGENCY

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How to use CONTINGENCY in a sentence

• You might, however, just as easily have been drawn out of human range altogether, and the results of such a contingency would have been exceedingly terrible.
• It was to prevent any such contingency that I suggested that you should bicycle to Kingham Manor.
• Mabel, on the whole, behaved well in this contingency.
• We must go prepared to meet any contingency that may arise.
• It usually denotes some doubtful contingency, or some supposition contrary to fact.
• Armour was alone and smoking, but I had come prepared against the contingency of one of his cigars.
• The first contingency springs from any threat of marriage.
• Whereas now, a remote and impossible contingency was attached to it.
• With a view to this contingency, the keel had been laid between the ways of the Neshamony, which were now all ready to be used.
• The prospects of such a contingency may, I trust, be deemed visionary.
• Several of the men had a small quantity in their canteens, but, inasmuch as no such contingency as this was anticipated, little preparation had been made.
• I infer from your letter that an authority has been vested in you by your Legislature to call a convention in a specified contingency.
• It is this contingency against which many intelligent and worthy persons are now trying to provide.
• It now became the duty of the composer to foresee every contingency of his work, and it lay with him to give directions for every detail of it.
• It is perhaps relatively rarely that such accidents occur, yet if preparations are made for such a contingency, a life may be saved which would otherwise be inevitably lost.
• We call this refusal to anticipate a contingency which certainly is possible, if not probable, sublime.
• Therefore, the knowledge of God in the realm of contingency does not produce the forms of the things.
• Such an idea was never thought of by me in any possible contingency.
• He had once been told that it was always through the more trivial contingency that the criminal was ultimately trapped.
• During this day Dick Sand was everywhere, so that everything should be in its place, and that he could be prepared for the smallest contingency.
• The only contingency, as he set forth, was the all-important one of obtaining naval superiority.
• It was necessary to have a plan for every contingency, and be ready to adopt any one of several plans at short notice.
• She was as unconcerned at that contingency as a goddess at a lack of linen.
• Oh, yes, I had the sense to think of that contingency.
• Such a contingency she would not admit as possible.
• Lupin had taken his precautions in view of any such contingency.
• Many were scheming with a view to the contingency that the election would be a tie and that the House of Representatives, in making the choice, would select Douglas.
• The separation from communion with the papacy was a contingency which there was still a hope might be avoided.

Similar words containing NTINGEN without suffix cy and without prefix co

contingent13 contingence16 contingents14 contingences17 contingently18 contingencies18 noncontingent16

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