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noun

Concurrence n.

The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. "We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us."

A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; implying joint approbation. "Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people."

Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; cooperation. "We collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine concurrence to it." "An instinct that works us to its own purposes without our concurrence."

A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.

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... speculations and of his bold and subtle allegorical expositions of Scripture to the mind of his age and of the succeeding centuries, together with the eminent literary position and renown early secured for him by a concurrence of causes, have combined to make him exert according to the expressed convictions of the best judges, such as Lucke and Norton a greater influence on the history of Christian opinions than any single man, with the exception of the Apostle Paul, since the ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... this conception to the psychic sphere and to conceive the inversion in its aberrations as an expression of psychic hermaphroditism. In order to bring the question to a decision, it was only necessary to have one other circumstance, viz., a regular concurrence of the inversion with the psychic and somatic signs ...

— Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex • Sigmund Freud

... intervention of Philip Augustus, king of France, who succeeded in possessing himself of a large part of the country, which was annexed to the royal domains under the name of Terre d'Auvergne. As the price of his concurrence with the king in this matter, the bishop of Clermont, Robert I. (1195-1227), was granted the lordship of the town of Clermont, which subsequently became a countship. Such was the origin of the four great historic lordships of Auvergne. The Terre d'Auvergne ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various

... the early church, while so much is so pointedly said respecting corruptions of doctrine, clearly sustain the inference that the Waldensian Church adapted herself to the form of organization adopted by the reformed churches of the continent not from choice, but from such a concurrence of circumstances as completely vindicates her from any wilful departure from the ...

— The Vaudois of Piedmont - A Visit to their Valleys • John Napper Worsfold

... speak:—did he act with your concurrence, or knowledge of it at all, in acting as ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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