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The definition of concordance is an agreement, or an alphabetical list of primary words used by an author.

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An example of a concordance is two friends agreeing to go into business in a certain way.
An example of a concordance is a list showing how many times the word Jesus shows up in the Bible and in what passages.

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noun

agreement; harmony
an alphabetical list of the chief words used in a book or by a writer, with the passages in which they occur identified or cited

Origin: ME concordaunce < OFr concordance < ML concordantia < L concordans, prp. of concordare, to agree < concors: see concord

See concordance in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Agreement; concord.
An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare's works.
Genetics The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.

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