Conjuncture
CONJUNCTURE, noun [See Conjoin.]
1. A joining; a combination or union, as of causes, events or circumstances; as an unhappy conjuncture of affairs.
2. An occasion; a critical time, proceeding from a union of circumstances. Juncture is used in a like sense.
At that conjuncture peace was very desirable.
3. Union; connection; mode of union; as the conjunctures of letters in words.
4. Connection; union; consistency.
I was willing to grant to presbytery what with reason it can pretend to in a conjuncture with episcopacy.