conjuncture

From French conjoncture.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkənd͡ʒʌŋkt͡ʃɚ/

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conjuncture (plural conjunctures)

1. A combination of events or circumstances; a conjunction; a union.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     To be sitting, at so pleasant a conjuncture of one's courses, in oneself, by oneself, that I think it will freely be admitted is a way no worse than another, and better than some, of whiling away an instant of leisure.

2. A set of circumstances causing a crisis; a juncture.
   • 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 635–636:

     [I]n his later years, he [James II of England] repeatedly, at conjunctures such as have often inspired timorous and delicate women with heroic courage, showed a pusillanimous anxiety about his personal safety.

• “conjuncture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

conjūnctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of conjūnctūrus