Literary notes about CONCUR (AI summary)
The word "concur" functions in literature both as an expression of agreement and as a descriptor for multiple forces or conditions coming together. In political and legal texts, it often underscores the formal assent or cooperation needed to enact a decision, as seen when treaties require a certain number of senators to concur [1, 2]. At times, it describes a harmonious convergence of factors that collectively lead to an outcome, whether in natural phenomena or human behavior [3, 4, 5]. Additionally, its use extends to more poetic or rhetorical contexts, where it evokes a sense of mutual feeling or shared destiny, as in the merging of affections [6]. This duality in meaning grants "concur" a rich versatility across various genres of literature.
- The President is to have power, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - For what inducement could the Senate have to concur in a preference in which itself would not be included?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases that two individuals ever concur in reproduction?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - These contingencies will concur only rarely, and after enormously long intervals.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - In actual fact, there are doubtless various factors that concur in giving us the feeling of greater or less remoteness in some remembered event.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - And so (say I) doth the world bear a certain affection of love to whatsoever shall come to pass With thine affections shall mine concur, O world.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
