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concordance

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English

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Excerpt from “A complete concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament” (sense 3).

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Late Latin cum
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d-
Proto-Italic *kord
Late Latin cor
Late Latin concors
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Late Latin -ō
Late Latin concordō
Late Latin concordantiader.
Old French concordanceder.
English concordance

    From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

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    Noun

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    concordance (countable and uncountable, plural concordances)

    1. Agreement; accordance; consonance.
      Synonyms: accordance, agreement, consonance
      • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part Second, Chapter I:
        John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances.
    2. (grammar, obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.
      Synonyms: agreement, concord
      Coordinate terms: government, regimen, rection (archaic)
    3. (chiefly biblical studies) A listing, often lemmatized and alphabetized, showing the places in a text, especially the Bible, where each word or phrase may be found, and its immediate context in each place.
      • c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
        His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
      1. (computational linguistics) A listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage.
    4. (genetics) The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
    5. (medicine) A patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription.

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    Verb

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    concordance (third-person singular simple present concordances, present participle concordancing, simple past and past participle concordanced)

    1. (transitive) To create a concordance from (a corpus).
      • 2015, Wenzhong Li, Simon Smith, “Introduction”, in Bin Zhou, Simon Smith, Michael Hoey, editors, Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 2:
        Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books.

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    French

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from Medieval Latin concordantia.[1]

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      concordance f (plural concordances)

      1. accord, agreement, accordance, concurrence, consonance, concord
        Coordinate term: discordance

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      References

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      1. ^ “concordance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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