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noun

Concomitancy, Concomitance n.

The state of accompanying; accompaniment. "The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other."

(R.C.Ch.) The doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communicating in one kind only.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of ascertaining that a given fact is not the necessary effect of another, since they are not always found together (for example, the emancipation of women and Christianity). But positive results are hardly to be expected of it, for the concomitance of two facts in several series does not show whether one is the cause of the other, or whether both are joint ...

— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois