concurrence
nounUK /kənˈkʌɹ.əns/ · US /kənˈkɝ.əns/
Etymology From Old French concurrence.
1
Agreement; concurring.
2
An instance of simultaneous occurrence.
- The time came when they ceased to cry and began to think; by the way, if Georgiana had not, from a concurrence of circumstances, been enabled to eat her breakfast, this operation of the mind could not have been engaged in without further injury, for she was, indeed, weak and exhausted;...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 11:
- This book owes its existence to a concurrence of accidents.1862, John Hill Burton, The Book-hunter, etc., Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, Advertisement:
- Derived terms
- nonconcurrence
- Related terms
- concur