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coincidents

coincidents is the plural of coincident.

Meaning of coincident

Noun

coincident (plural coincidents)

  1. (obsolete) One of multiple incidents or things which coincide with each other; a concomitant.
    • In truth, vve thought it (coming immediately from an infected place) an hazardous incivilitie, to put our ſelves upon them; for if any ſiniſter accident had fallen out about the ſame time (for Coincidents are not alvvaies Cauſes) vve ſhould have rued it for ever.a. 1639 (date written), Henry Wotton, “[Letters, &c. and Characters of Sundry Personages, […].] My Deare Nic. Pey.”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London...

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Questions about coincidents

What is coincidents the plural of?
Coincidents is the plural of coincident.

Words near coincidents in the dictionary

  1. coincident indicators
  2. coincidental
  3. coincidentalism
  4. coincidentally
  5. coincidently
  6. coincidents
  7. coincider
  8. coinciders
  9. coincides
  10. coinciding
  11. coincidingly

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