Meaning & use
concordance
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Agreement or harmony between things, or an alphabetical index of the words used in a text along with where they appear.
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The twins' opinions were in remarkable concordance on almost every issue.
Scholars use a Biblical concordance to find every verse containing a particular word.
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Concordance has a general meaning of agreement and a specialized meaning in literary and religious studies, where it refers to a word index for a text.
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