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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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"Concurrence" Quotes from Famous Books

... felt it; and it was with a very perfect concurrence in his Majesty's taste in a uniform, and a most entire approval of the regimental tailor, that I strutted down George's Street a few days after my arrival in Cork. The transports had not as yet come round; there was a great doubt of their doing so for a week or so longer; and ...

— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... any fraud that is practised upon him by the Company's servants. He says what (with the exception of the complaint against the Cavalry Loan) all the world knows to be true: and without that prince's concurrence, what evidence can be had of the fraud of any the smallest of these demands? The ministers never authorized any person to enter into his exchequer and to search his records. Why, then, this shameful and insulting mockery of a pretended contest? Already contests for a preference ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... it implies both the concurrence and compromise, regulating all wilfulness of design: and, more curious still, the crystals do NOT always give way to each other. They show exactly the same varieties of temper that human creatures might. Sometimes they yield the required place ...

— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin

... presentation to Russell until revived rumours of mediation made the American Minister anxious[697]. No answer was given by Russell for over a month, a fact in itself indicative of some hesitancy on policy. Soon the indirect diplomacy of Napoleon III was renewed in the hope of British concurrence. July 11, Slidell informed Mason that Persigny in conversation had assured him "that this Government is now more anxious than ever to take prompt and decided action in our favour." Slidell asked if it was impossible to stir Parliament but acknowledged that everything ...

— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams

... Mr. Pederson. These are the insights you had not revealed before. (Turns to member at far end of table.) Dr. Deobler. As psychologist assigned to Disposition Council, may I ask if there is an area of concurrence? ...

— We're Friends, Now • Henry Hasse

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