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  • noun Plural form of concord.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concord.

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Examples

  • "Bantu" is a linguistic rather than an ethnic term: it was coined in the 1850s by a philologist, Wilhelm Bleek, to characterize those peoples south of the Sahara speaking a group of related languages featuring prefixial concords, that is, a system in which the prefix is inflected to indicate grammatical case and number rather than, as in most western European languages, the suffix.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3 1975

  • Taken separately, and at rehearsals, in disjointed fragments of sound, how different are they from that volume of sweet concords which is produced when they are all breathed forth in order, to the accompaniment of flutes and recorders, in one full gush of melody!

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Various 1840

  • [Jan. 22nd, 2009 | 06: 44 pm] [Tags | flight of concords, jemaine and brett] (warning, some mild spoilers follow) -- The New Zealand tourist posters such as "Not a part of Australia" and "New Zealand: Why Not?"

    Some of my favorite things from "Flight of the Concords" trinfaneb 2009

  • To draw an analogy with the introductory quote from Lukács, the unconscious depths of nature and unconscious depths within the psyche are credited with forms of co-ordination — 'inner' connections, obscure but historically unfolding concords — in the same way in which the laws of individual and cosmos, the light of souls and the light of stars, were once wishfully integrated.

    Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul 2008

  • I was hoping to find more table grapes like the selection we got from Ayers Creek Farm at the Hillsdale market last week, but mostly I saw concords.

    [Superstruct] This week at the market « Dyepot, Teapot 2008

  • The music was full of thirds -- traditional concords that are actually lovely to hear.

    A Composer Not Afraid to Feel 2009

  • Jazz Moozeecall Casablanca Lift Every Voice and Sing This ability to turn on a dime from producing a melded sonority of organ-like concords to a scintillating aural tissue highlighting each instrumental voice is at the heart of wind-quintet performance.

    It's a Breeze: Imani Winds 2009

  • As far as the holocaust is concerned, "error has no rights" and the world concords with Blessed Pope Pius IXin seeing the absolute liberty of conscience as an insanity.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • LoL! really? maracle is it just me or does the book cover look exactly like Jemaine from flight of the concords cubicle

    First Look: James Franco In Howl | /Film 2009

  • To do that, in my opinion we need to adapt our message in such a way that it concords with what people are posting to the blogs read Comment is Free, Have Your Say etc, saying to each other in the pubs, writing letters to the papers.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Patrick Vessey 2008

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