Concordance

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Con*cord"ance (?), n. [F., fr. LL. concordantia.]

1.

Agreement; accordance.

Contrasts, and yet concordances. Carlyle.

2. Gram.

Concord; agreement.

[Obs.]

Aschlam.

3.

An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.

His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. Macaulay.

4.

A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.

 

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