Literary notes about Concurrence (AI summary)
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.
- 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 - 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 - What had they ever done with the concurrence of the people?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy - 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 - 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 - 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 - Without their concurrence, nothing is, or should be, done.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - A question, therefore, may arise concerning the manner both of the concurrence and opposition.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - But hunger arises internally, without the concurrence of any external object.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - As to the concurrence, there is only the choice left betwixt these two hypotheses.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - Our problem is to explain this concurrence, its possibility and its necessity.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 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 - 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 - " "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 - She received my concurrence with pleasure, and a thousand times over thanked her deceiving, deceitful brother.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Mr. Knightley was fortunate in every body's most ready concurrence.
— from Emma by Jane Austen - How could such a change be made without Rosamond's concurrence?
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - 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 - And how suffer him to leave her without saying one word of gratitude, of concurrence, of common kindness!
— from Emma by Jane Austen - concurrence , f. , compétition.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann - 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 - rivalité , f. , concurrence de personnes qui prétendent à la même chose.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann