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Contingence
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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| contingence (kənˈtɪndʒəns) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the state of touching or being in contact |
| 2. | another word for contingency |
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contingence
c.1530, from M.L. *contingentia, from contingent- prp. stem of contingere "to touch" (see contact).
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