concordances

Noun

concordance (countable and uncountable, plural concordances)

1. Agreement; accordance; consonance.
   • 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.1850, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part Second, Chapter I

   Synonyms:

   accordance, agreement, consonance

2. (obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.

   Synonyms:

   agreement, concord

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.
   • His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica
   1. (chiefly biblical studies) A listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage.
4. 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. A patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription.

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