concomitant

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The sentiment that ruled his mind was anger, with its natural concomitant -- the desire to punish.

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  1. adjective Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant. See Synonyms at contemporary.
  2. noun One that occurs or exists concurrently with another.

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  • Which brings up some questions that have already arisen once before in the course of the voyage—the makeup of the landing party that will go down to confirm the usefulness and beauty of Planet B, and the concomitant issue of the expiration of the year-captain's second year in office That second year is almost up now. —  Starborne
  • The AKP governments, first under Prime Minister Abdullah Gul and since early 2003 under Erdogan, embarked on an ambitious foreign policy -- concomitant with their equally bold domestic political and reform program -- that sought to secure Turkey's bid to become a member of the European Union while simultaneously cultivating relationships with Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Riyadh, and Tehran. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • And the logical concomitant, the law of worship. —  The Worshippers
  • [19] Thus those philosophers, of whom Kant is typical, who contend for the purity of the moral motive and the disinterested loyalty to the good, bring in, at the end, the notion of happiness, which, as a concomitant or consequence of virtue, cannot fail to be also an active incentive 2) When we turn to Christian Ethics we find that here, not less than in philosophical Ethics, the motive lies in the object itself. —  Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
  • But we can try to measure the duration of the physical concomitant, and call this the real duration of the sensation We all distinguish between the real time of mental phenomena, in the sense indicated just above, and the apparent time. —  An Introduction to Philosophy
 

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  1. Late Latin concomitāns, concomitant-, present participle of concomitārī, to accompany : Latin com-, com- + Latin comitārī, to accompany (from comes, comit-, companion; see ei- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French concomitant = Spanish Portuguese Italian concomitante, from Late Latin concomitan(t-)s, present participle of concomitari, accompany, from Latin com-, together, + comitari, accompany, from comes (comit-), a companion: see count.
 

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/kənˈkɑmɪtənt/
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