Definition of "contingence" []

• A joining or touching. (noun)
• Contingency. (noun)

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• "Condemning theory because it lends itself to certain political doctrines is also inappropriate as binding it to a particular contingence is violence to it."
• "The only course on which he could determine, was to stand by the helm like a resolute pilot, watch every contingence, do his best to weather each reef and shoal, and commit the rest to heaven and his patroness."
• "Whilst they attribute all to natural causes, [6646] contingence of all things, as"