chancing

noun — 2 senses

noun

Something that happens by chance.

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.1832, Robert Mudie, The Botanic Annual, page viii:
I did not know what better or worse / Chancings might bless or curse […]1922, Thomas Hardy, A Procession of Dead Days:

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