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How to use parallelism in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Parallelism means the state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character. Example: “AD 46-120), in his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, traced a parallelism between the most eminent men of the two countries.”

Examples of parallelism by meaning

nounThe state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.

  • AD 46-120), in his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, traced a parallelism between the most eminent men of the two countries.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29

More sentences with parallelism

  • This parallelism brings in conflicts and directional indeterminisms which cannot be solved by the CU.2014, M.B. Zaremba, Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology. From the entry indeterminism
  • Coordinate constructions represent the special case of symmetry, parallelism, and coequality among the component clauses.2008, Ronald W. Langacker, Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction, pages 406, 412. From the entry complex sentence
  • Among the latter is the type of word-play known as polysemous parallelism, or more commonly, Janus parallelism.1996, Scott B. Noegel, “Introduction to Janus Parallelism”, in Janus Parallelism in the Book of Job (Journal for the Study of the Old…. From the entry Janus
  • In that light Noegel might want to consider Janus parallelism as an intersecting set with contranymy.1996, The Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near Eastern Studies. From the entry contranymy
  • But this does not mean that parallelism took place; contrary to the opinion of Professor T.F.1975, Arthur Henry Evans, English Historians and Welsh History: An Examination, →ISBN, pages 12, 21, and 53. From the entry Cymraeg
  • Psychophysiology proliferated with Cartesian interactionism, Liebnizian parallelism, and Spinozistic double aspectism.1971, Jacob Robert Kantor, The aim and progress of psychology and other sciences. From the entry aspectism
  • In the heroic lays, parallelisms of long lines predominate, strictly organized from the point of view of alliterational technique.1998, Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskiĭ, Kenneth H. Ober, The Elder Edda and early forms of the epic, page 230. From the entry alliterational
  • Waldo flexed and extended his fingers gently; the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.1940, Robert A. Heinlein, Waldo. From the entry waldo
  • The realization that Mawlānā was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise.2009, Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman, Rūmī's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawī, Book One, page 46. From the entry chiasmus
  • Haeckel maintained that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, and this idea was incorporated by Lombroso into his parallelism between the criminal and the child.1961, M. E. Wolfgang, “Pioneers in Criminology: Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909)”, in The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police…. From the entry ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

Meaning of parallelism

  1. noun The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
  2. noun The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
  3. noun A parallel position; the relation of parallels.

Full definition of parallelism

Questions about parallelism in a sentence

How do you use parallelism in a sentence?
Parallelism is used as a noun. For example: “AD 46-120), in his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, traced a parallelism between the most eminent men of the two countries.”
What is a short sentence with parallelism?
“Psychophysiology proliferated with Cartesian interactionism, Liebnizian parallelism, and Spinozistic double aspectism.”
What does parallelism mean?
Parallelism means the state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.

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