chancing

English

Verb

chancing

  1. present participle of chance

Noun

chancing (plural chancings)

  1. Something that happens by chance.
    • 1832, Robert Mudie, The Botanic Annual, page viii:
      Although some of the subjects treated of are deciduous, all of them last for seasons; and such is the intention of the book, whatever may be its chance in a world of chancings.
    • Thomas Hardy
      I did not know what better or worse / Chancings might bless or curse […]
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