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eventuality

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eventuality \E*ven`tu*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Eventualities . [Cf. F. The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence. (Phren.) Disposition to take cognizance of events.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB cover ▪ Therefore we need to have £300 to £500 put back to cover these eventualities . ▪ Not surprisingly, Whitehall has been hedging its bets with officials preparing briefs to cover a variety of eventualities . ▪ Now, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eventuality is a faculty from the discipline of phrenology , which rules the factual memory: the memory for facts and events. It can also be referred to as the historical faculty, and it is reflected in a desire to know and to be informed. The localization ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a possible event or occurrence or result [syn: contingency , contingence ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A possible event; something that may happen.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1759, "a possible occurrence," from eventual + -ity , on model of French éventualité .

Usage examples of eventuality.

Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles, a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences.

While it might have seemed unusual for a government to be setting up procedures that allowed their agents to spy on the citizenry, in essence they were just planning ahead for the eventuality that an undercover operation might have to be run some day.

As the tellers have done down through the centuries, you and I have stashed food, as Lokey does, for just such an eventuality.

I guessed that he was thinking how he could use his inheritance to fund his homesteading expedition to Cozakee or some other frontier planet, and that his sisters were not happy to realize that his dream had suddenly become a much more likely eventuality.

The danger is that it invokes only spirits of time, and such monoclinal adjurations risk perturbing the diametric complement, which in the case of time is chance, thus hazarding aberrant and unpredictable eventualities.

If the bunch of programmers who were ingenious enough to put together an elaborate decision-making package, an absurdly large parser, and an incredible number of graphics images, had still not been able to figure out all the eventualities in their little toy, then it had the capacity to run amok and do things they had never thought about.

German troops have been provided in such strength that they can easily cope with any military task in the Danubian region and with any eventualities from any side.

THE RETICENCE OF LADY ANNE Egbert came into the large, dimly lit drawing-room with the air of a man who is not certain whether he is entering a dovecote or a bomb factory, and is prepared for either eventuality.

It seemed that the man had planned for this eventuality, and Midas knew that there was nothing more Electra could do to avoid this man or his shot.

True, Payne would never inherit Montpelier, her dearest wish, but she had become reconciled to this eventuality.

McClellan had planned for this eventuality, assuming that Lincoln would turn to Burnside, who was acceptable to the radicals, rather than to the respected Fitz-John Porter, the only general other than himself capable of facing Lee.

Not a pleasant contemplation, but he had before him an assembly of his accesses, his resources, in the not-inconceivable eventuality of the dowager creating a breach with Ogun and with Sabin.

On this evening, so firmly persuaded was he that he at last had the clue to Hero’s whereabouts, he felt cheerful enough to have eaten his dinner in Half Moon Street, had Mrs Bradgate made any preparation to meet so unexpected an eventuality.

Plan Three was an elaborate escape that Plumm had erected against such an eventuality with false passports, valid air tickets, ready luggage, clothes, disguises and covers, even including passkeys to airplane waiting areas without going through Immigration that had a ninety-five percent chance of success given an hour's notice.

The estimate seemed about right, although the company of mercenary musketeers Borja had kept on hand for just such an eventuality seemed, for the moment, to be sufficient threat to keep them from coming over the walls of the estate or trying to force the gate.