Crossword clues for concurrence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concurrence \Con*cur"rence\, n. [F., competition, equality of rights, fr. LL. concurrentia competition.]
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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.
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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.
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Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; co["o]peration.
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. A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French concurrence (14c.) or directly from Medieval Latin concurrentia "a running together," from concurrens, present participle of concurrere (see concur).
Wiktionary
n. 1 agreement; concurring. 2 An instance of simultaneous occurrence.
WordNet
n. agreement of results or opinions
acting together as of agents or circumstances or events
a state of cooperation [syn: meeting of minds]
the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable" [syn: coincidence, conjunction, co-occurrence]
Wikipedia
In Western jurisprudence, concurrence (also contemporaneity or simultaneity) is the apparent need to prove the simultaneous occurrence of both actus reus ("guilty action") and mens rea ("guilty mind"), to constitute a crime; except in crimes of strict liability. In theory, if the actus reus does not hold concurrence in point of time with the mens rea then no crime has been committed.
In quantum information science, the concurrence is a state invariant involving qubits.
Usage examples of "concurrence".
The accumulation of each great fossiliferous formation will be recognised as having depended on an unusual concurrence of circumstances, and the blank intervals between the successive stages as having been of vast duration.
The next entry in the Diary was made at Christiania, where he thus speaks of the unity and concurrence which his friends had testified with his mission.
The king of Prussia, being induced by a concurrence of motives to stop the progress of the Russians in Silesia, made his dispositions for retreating from Bohemia, and on the twenty-fifth day of July quitted the camp at Koningsgratz.
If some of the dogs were not safe to be sent home, if some of them had medical problems that would preclude their going home, if some required constant veterinary care just to survive, we would then have to notify the owners, and with their concurrence, take the necessary unpleasant step.
Concurrence from other department heads would bolster his case if there was a Medinan appeal.
Although four Justices are recorded as concurring in the opinion, their accompanying opinions whittle their concurrence in some instances to the vanishing point.
In a lengthy opinion, in which he registered his concurrence with both decisions, Justice Frankfurter set forth extensive statistical data calculated to prove that labor unions not only were possessed of considerable economic power but by virtue of such power were no longer dependent on the closed shop for survival.
What is done by these second causes or creatures is done eminently by him, for they exist only by his creative act, and produce only by virtue of his active presence, or effective concurrence.
This is particularly remarkable in that philosophy, which ascribes the discernment of all moral distinctions to reason alone, without the concurrence of sentiment.
There are practical difficulties in following out this suggestion, but possibly the forethought of your progenitors, or that concurrence of circumstances which we call accident, may have arranged this for you.
Before complying with this proposal, I consulted the Duke, and it was mainly under the influence of his warm concurrence that I accepted the mission offered to me.
No beneficial decision can be arrived at without the concurrence of both powers, for each have rights and ideas in some respects differing, and Canada especially has the deepest concern in the future organization of the North-west.
By a most fortunate concurrence of circumstances--by what I presume to call, speaking of events of this magnitude, a providential concurrence of circumstances--the Government of Canada was so modified last spring as to enable it to deal fearlessly with this subject, at the very moment when the coast Colonies, despairing of a Canadian union, were arranging a conference of their own for a union of their own.
With the concurrence of the British Minister at Washington, they are therefore obliged respectfully to decline to enter into the engagement suggested in the memorandum, but they trust that the present views of the United States may soon be so far modified as to permit of the interchange of the productions of the two countries upon a more liberal basis.
In this concurrence of idleness, distraction, and vehement desire, I found all at once, without any foregone resolution, that I was concentrating and intensifying within me, until it rose almost to a command, the operative volition that Lady Alice should come to me.