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noun

Parallelism n.

The quality or state of being parallel.

Resemblance; correspondence; similarity. "A close parallelism of thought and incident."

Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: "At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead."

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Etymology of 'Parallelism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... a wonderfully close parallelism exists between hybridisation and certain forms of fertilisation among heterostyled plants. So that it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the "illegitimately" reared seedlings are hybrids, although both their parents ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

... to obtain a parallelism between the motion of the alidades and that of the corresponding telescopes, the winch of each of the latter, while putting its instrument in motion, also sets in motion a Siemens double-T armature electromagnetic machine. One of the wires of the armature of this ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various

... fact that a horse can be influenced by occult mental powers proves the close parallelism that exists between the brains of men and beasts. The Trap-Door Spider. Let no one suppose for one moment that animal mind and intelligence is limited to the brain-bearing vertebrates. The scope and activity of the notochord in some ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... of Nature should so long have escaped recognition. For apart from the probability on a priori grounds, it is involved in the whole structure of Parable. When any two Phenomena in the two spheres are seen to be analogous, the parallelism must depend upon the fact that the Laws governing them are not analogous but identical. And yet this basis for Parable seems to have been overlooked. Thus Principal Shairp:—"This seeing of Spiritual truths mirrored in the ...

— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond

... fossil remains which are the evidences of these successive changes, as they have occurred in any two more or less distant parts of the surface of the earth, are compared, they exhibit a certain broad and general parallelism. In other words, certain forms of life in one locality occur in the same general order of succession as, or are homotaxial with, similar forms ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

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