fortuitous

IPA: fɔrtˈuɪtʌs

adjective

  • Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental.
  • Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
  • (law) Happening independently of human will.
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Examples of "fortuitous" in Sentences

  • The change proved to be fortuitous.
  • The timing couldn't have been more fortuitous.
  • The arrival of the diesels proved to be fortuitous.
  • The collapse of the case against her was fortuitous.
  • The circumstances surrounding the recording were fortuitous.
  • This fact would prove fortuitous in the symphony's ultimate fate.
  • The next step is also arranged from demons and it is not fortuitous event.
  • The situation is saved by the fortuitous arrival of a stranger from Andros.
  • The offer is fortuitous because Lewrie's personal life is rapidly unraveling.
  • However, he also stated that ignorance of radar was fortuitous in the long run.
  • The reliance on coincidence or the fortuitous is often questionable, but the results at the same time are never quite incredible.
  • Krutak has been unemployed since quitting a job in July at a nonprofit, timing she called fortuitous in light of the Occupy movement.
  • Yet all of the various elements which have historically been assigned to Fortune, Fate, and Chance are gathered into a single providential system of which the fortuitous is a part.
  • Hence there grew up the belief that events which we describe as fortuitous or random or subject to chance are no different from any other happenings, except that we do not know why they happen.
  • And he concludes, after referring to the fortuitous duty-free shopping interlude I shared with Bashar en route back to London from Damascus, by remarking: By this time, Michael, whos a very engaging personality, is a friend of the family!
  • Since Fortuna is a personification of the fortuitous, and the fortuitous is a branch of the chain of causality, its normal place in the providential scheme is within the realm of Fate, which is the unfolding of Providence in multiplicity and time.
  • For very many in the world attribute everything to themselves and their prudence, and what they cannot so attribute they call fortuitous and accidental, not knowing that human prudence is nothing and that "fortuitous" and "accidental" are idle words.
  • An event that is described as fortuitous or accidental in the context of one set of interests may take on a different aspect when it is surveyed from another standpoint, being seen there as intrinsically related to the historian's principal theme or subject: in neither case, though, need the suggestion that it has no causal explanation be present.
  • A careful induction from all the passages where this number cannot be regarded as fortuitous, but is evidently of Divine ordinance and appointment (I call fortuitous such sevens as occur, Acts xix. 14; xx. 6), will leave no doubt that it claims throughont Scripture to be considered as the covenant number, the sign and signature of God's covenant relation to mankind, and above all to that portion of mankind with which this relation is not potential merely, but actual, namely the Church.

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