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Definition of Concordance
1. Noun. A harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole.
Generic synonyms: Order
Specialized synonyms: Peace, Comity, Accord, Agreement
Derivative terms: Concord, Harmonic, Harmonical, Harmonious, Harmonious, Harmonise, Harmonise, Harmonize, Harmonize, Harmonize
2. Noun. Agreement of opinions.
Generic synonyms: Agreement
Derivative terms: Concord, Concord, Concord, Concordant, Harmonical
3. Noun. An index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts.
Definition of Concordance
1. n. Agreement; accordance.
Definition of Concordance
1. Noun. agreement; accordance; consonance ¹
2. Noun. (context: grammar obsolete) concord; agreement. ¹
3. Noun. An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. ¹
4. Noun. (computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Concordance
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Concordance
1. Agreement in the types of data that occur in natural pairs. For example, in a trait like schizophrenia, a pair of identical twins is concordant if both are affected or both are unaffected; it is discordant if one of them only is affected. Likewise, the pairs might be non-identical twins, or sibs, or husband and wife, etc. Origin: L. Concordia, agreeing, harmony (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concordance
Literary usage of Concordance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"MC Hazard, in Walker's concordance): The concordance of the New Testament,
apparently by John Day helped by the printer Thomas ..."
2. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1874)
"THE publication, in 1846, of Mrs. Cowden Clarke's " concordance to Shakespeare's
Plays" marked an era in the history of that voluminous and constantly ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1892)
"In his “concordance to Shelley,” 1 Mr. FS Ellis has given the world a monument
... This style of concordance-making has been condemned as augmenting the ..."
4. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1815)
"Williams's concordance to the Greek Testament gives the English version to each
word, and points out the principal Hebrew roots corresponding to the Greek ..."
5. Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum by Charles Ammi Cutter, Boston Athenaeum (1874)
"concordance». — BUTTERWORTH, J. ' New concordance. 2d Amer. ed. Boston, 1821.
8". Same. New ed.. with improvement» by A. Clarke. ..."
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