incident
Speech parts
1. incident - Noun
2. incident - Adjective
Meaning
Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.
That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.
Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
May your journey be free of incident.