Word Meanings - CONCURRENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;

Additional info about word: CONCURRENCE

1. 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. Locke. 2. 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. Swift. 3. Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; coöperation. We collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine concurrence to it. Rogers. An instinct that works us to its own purposes without our concurrence. Burke. 4. A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONCURRENCE)

• Agreement
• Contract
• compact
• bond
• concord
• concurrence
• conformity
• harmony
• unison
• consonance
• bargain
• covenant
• obligation
• undertaking
• treaty
• Approbation
• Approval
• satisfaction
• praise
• encouragement
• confirmation
• assent
• consent
• permission
• commendation
• acceptance
• Assent
• Coincidence
• agreement
• concert
• acknowledgment
• acquiescence
• approval
• approbation
• compliance
• Chance
• fortuity
• casualty
• correspondence
• contemporaneousness
• commensurateness
• Confluence
• Conflux
• meeting
• concourse
• convergence

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONCURRENCE)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon
• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to CONCURRENCE)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• UNISONANCE
  Accordance of sounds; unison.
• CONCURRENCE
  1. 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. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• CONCORDANT
  Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• CONFLUXIBILITY
  The tendency of fluids to run together. Boyle.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• PRECONSENT
  A previous consent.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.