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  • noun The condition of being concomitant
  • noun concomitance

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Examples

  • This I think, can rarely exist without the concomitancy of judgment; for how we can be said to have discovered the true essence of two things, without discerning their difference, seems to me hard to conceive.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • For the common voice of the philosophers, together with the opinion of the people, asserteth for an irrefragable truth that vaticination is seldom by the heavens bestowed on any without the concomitancy of a little frenzy and a head-shaking, not only when the said presaging virtue is infused, but when the person also therewith inspired declareth and manifesteth it unto others.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • For the common voice of the philosophers, together with the opinion of the people, asserteth for an irrefragable truth that vaticination is seldom by the heavens bestowed on any without the concomitancy of a little frenzy and a head-shaking, not only when the said presaging virtue is infused, but when the person also therewith inspired declareth and manifesteth it unto others.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • The body hath its share by concomitancy and subserviency to the direction of the mind.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Yet this I must say, that the infusion of spiritual light into the mind, which is the foundation of all gifts, as hath been proved, being wrought sometimes suddenly or in a short season, the concomitancy of gifts in some good measure is oftentimes sudden, with an appearance of something extraordinary, as might be manifested in instances of several sorts.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Their use, for the begetting and continuing communion between God and us, with the concomitancy of precepts, places them in the capacity of a covenant.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • Other writers describe it as, "the science of the facts apprehended by our internal sense", or again, "the science of our states of consciousness, their laws of succession and concomitancy".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • “Witnessing with,” — there is a glorious and blessed concomitancy in the subject, a kind of double sense in which he takes note, both of God and of himself together, and is, at one and the same moment, conscious of both.

    Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876

  • Rome's theory of concomitancy of the blood with the body, the excuse for giving only the bread to the laity, falls to the ground.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The distinct specification of the bread and the wine disproves the Romish doctrine of concomitancy, and exclusion of the laity from the cup.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

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