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The term "concurrence" has been employed in literature with a remarkable range of meanings. In historical and political contexts, it often signifies formal agreement or endorsement, as seen in Livy's discussions of wartime preparations ([1], [2], [3]) and Edmund Burke’s criticisms of governmental practices ([4], [5], [6]). Philosophers like Rousseau and Hume have used it to denote the very necessity of consent or the intricate meeting of causes that brings about an effect ([7], [8], [9], [10]), while others, such as Coleridge and Bacon, explore its role in rational explanation ([11], [12]). Additionally, in literary narratives by authors like Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Edgar Allan Poe, the word frequently captures both collective agreement and the serendipitous co-occurrence of events ([13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19]). Even in French learning materials, "concurrence" shifts to indicate competition or rivalry ([20], [21], [22]). This diverse usage underscores the word’s flexibility, functioning both in the literal sense of simultaneous occurrence and in the more abstract, metaphorical sense of aligned intentions or circumstances.
  1. Then the levy began to proceed, and preparations for war began to be made with the concurrence of all ranks.
    — from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy
  2. A triumph was decreed to the dictator with the concurrence of the senate and commons.
    — from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy
  3. What had they ever done with the concurrence of the people?
    — from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy
  4. All this however is submitted to, in order to avoid that monstrous evil of governing in concurrence with the opinion of the people.
    — from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
  5. Here to be affected, there is no need of the concurrence of our will.
    — from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
  6. But there is not the same obvious concurrence in any uniform or settled principles which relate to taste.
    — from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
  7. Without their concurrence, nothing is, or should be, done.
    — from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  8. A question, therefore, may arise concerning the manner both of the concurrence and opposition.
    — from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
  9. But hunger arises internally, without the concurrence of any external object.
    — from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
  10. As to the concurrence, there is only the choice left betwixt these two hypotheses.
    — from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
  11. Our problem is to explain this concurrence, its possibility and its necessity.
    — from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  12. It is a thing I do the rather mention, because, computing backwards, I have found some concurrence.
    — from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon
  13. Just what Doctor Dubble L. Dee would denominate an extraordinary concurrence of events.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  14. " "Vincy, I must repeat, that you will not get any concurrence from me as to the course you have pursued with your eldest son.
    — from Middlemarch by George Eliot
  15. She received my concurrence with pleasure, and a thousand times over thanked her deceiving, deceitful brother.
    — from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  16. Mr. Knightley was fortunate in every body's most ready concurrence.
    — from Emma by Jane Austen
  17. How could such a change be made without Rosamond's concurrence?
    — from Middlemarch by George Eliot
  18. He left us with a promise of an early decision, and, indeed, before the week had passed we received his full concurrence to my mother’s suggestion.
    — from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
  19. And how suffer him to leave her without saying one word of gratitude, of concurrence, of common kindness!
    — from Emma by Jane Austen
  20. concurrence , f. , compétition.
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
  21. PEINTRES Deux peintres en concurrence de talents, disputèrent un jour à qui l'emporterait sur l'autre.
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
  22. rivalité , f. , concurrence de personnes qui prétendent à la même chose.
    — from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

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