Concomitant meaning

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The definition of concomitant is something that goes naturally together or is associated with something else.

An example of concomitant is a large salary with a good job.

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Concomitant is defined as something that usually happens along with, or right after, another event.

An example of concomitant is getting fired after you tell off your boss.

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Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant.

Poverty and its concomitant social problems.

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One that occurs or exists concurrently with another.
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Accompanying; attendant.
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An accompanying or attendant condition, circumstance, or thing.
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Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
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Something happening or existing at the same time.
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Origin of concomitant

  • Late Latin concomitāns concomitant- present participle of concomitārī to accompany Latin com- com- Latin comitārī to accompany (from comes comit- companion ei- in Indo-European roots)
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • First attested 1607; from French concomitant, from concomitāns, the present participle of Latin concomitor (“I accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“I accompany”), from comes (“companion”).
    From Wiktionary

Concomitant Sentence Examples

  • The fast was a suitable concomitant of that contrition which befitted the occasion.

  • Such gas is a more or less general concomitant of oil all through the petroleum-bearing areas of the country.

  • Corruption is the frequent concomitant of privilege, and thus the town councils often connived for a price at the presence in their midst of Jews whose admission was illegal.

  • This view of existence as an endless and concomitant sowing and reaping is accepted by learned and unlearned alike as accounting for those inequalities in human life which might otherwise lead men to doubt the justice of God.

  • It has been argued that All-Fatherism is an advance, conditioned by coastal influences - more rain and more food - concomitant with a social advance to individual marriage, and reckoning of kin in the male line.

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