concordance

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He demands a Biblical concordance which is in folio.

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  1. noun Agreement; concord.
  2. noun An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare's works.
  3. noun Genetics The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.

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  • If you take your Bible and concordance, and hunt up the places where the expression “right hand” is used, you will plainly see that “right hand,” when spoken of as the “right hand” of God, means power , the power of God. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary
  • Intraclass concordance was good for the PedsQL CP Module Daily Activities, and Speech and Communication scores (P = 0.0005). —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Strong's concordance, but I lugged it around anyway, reading in the car, reading while my brother Ryan took his piano lesson, reading pretty much anywhere I could get away with it. —  Planet RMFO Blog
  • The Life Application Study Bible has notes that help to provide the reader with insight into the meaning of scripture, contains maps, charts, and diagrams, as well as a dictionary-concordance. —  We Blog A Lot
  • The latest meeting was supposed to explore the possibility of reaching a certain general concordance or "shelf agreement" on the main contentious issues, including the future of Jerusalem, Jewish colonies in the West Bank and the right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees uprooted from their homes when Israel was created 60 years ago. —  Window Into Palestine
 

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  1. from Middle English concordaunce, from Old French concordance, French concordance = Spanish Portuguese concordancia = Italian concordanza, from Middle Latin concordantia, from Latin concordan(t-)s, present participle of concordare, agree: see concordant, concord, v.
 

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/kənˈkɔrdəns/
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