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countable and uncountable, plural concordances
Agreement; accordance; consonance. quotations examples
John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances.
1850, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part Second, Chapter I
(grammar, obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.
(biblical) An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. quotations examples
His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica
(computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context. examples
third-person singular simple present concordances, present participle concordancing, simple past and past participle concordanced
(transitive) To create a concordance from (a corpus). quotations examples
Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books.
2015, Wenzhong Li, Simon Smith, “Introduction”, in Bin Zhou, Simon Smith, Michael Hoey, editors, Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, page 2