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Incident

noun

A single distinct event.

A public disturbance.

adjective

Falling or striking of light rays on something.

(sometimes followed by 'to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence. Synonym: incidental. "The road will bring other incidental advantages" , "Extra duties incidental to the job" , "Labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion" , "Confusion incidental to a quick change" Antonym: basic.

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"Incident" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the broadest of north-country Doric. His sense of humour is singularly keen, notwithstanding that he is a Scot; and it is not in his nature to minimise his own share in the honour and glory of the incident he may relate. One of Geordie's stories is vividly in my recollection, and may appropriately conclude my reminiscences of Speyside and its folk. There was a stoup of "Benrinnes" on the mantelpiece and a free-drawing ...

— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes

... that a man who had suffered, without visible emotion, the monstrous humiliation of handing over his command intact, should break down over a trivial incident concerning a diary, and not even his own diary, and yet there was this man ...

— The Diary of a U-boat Commander • Anon

... me for fourteen guineas, a florin, one groat and three pennies!" and in two breaths, or thereabouts, she had recounted the whole incident. ...

— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol

... told the latter part of the story a reverent, loving, self-forgetful look came into her face, and made her seem to me like an angel. As for myself, the recalling of the incident, now that I knew its sequel, prevented my keeping my eyes dry. I felt a little ashamed of myself and hurried away, but her look while I spoke of her father, and her trembling form in my arms while Mrs. Markson raved at her, ...

— Romance of California Life • John Habberton

... September the province reaped an abundant harvest. But the relief came too late to avert depopulation. Starving and shelterless crowds crawled despairingly from one deserted village to another in a vain search for food, or a resting-place in which to hide themselves from the rain. The epidemics incident to the season were thus spread over the whole country; and, until the close of the year, disease continued so prevalent as to form a subject of communication from the government in Bengal to the ...

— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske

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