concomitancy

[ kon-kom-i-tuhn-see, kuhn- ]

noun

, plural con·com·i·tan·cies.

1. concomitance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of concomitancy¹

From the Medieval Latin word concomitantia, dating back to 1555–65. See concomitant, -ancy

Example Sentences

You know, I remarked, that a great authority on the question "declined confidently to affirm that the moral infection came by way of physical agency, as a rusty scabbard infects and defiles a bright sword when sheathed therein: it might be," he thought, "by way of natural concomitancy, as Estius will have it; or, to speak as Dr. Reynolds doth, by way of ineffable resultancy and emanation."

From Project Gutenberg

By laborious investigation physiology has established the fact beyond the reach of rational dispute, that there is a constant relation of concomitancy between cerebral action and thought.

From Project Gutenberg

For the common voice of the philosophers, together with the opinion of the people, asserteth for an irrefragable truth that vaticination is seldom by the heavens bestowed on any without the concomitancy of a little frenzy and a head-shaking, not only when the said presaging virtue is infused, but when the person also therewith inspired declareth and manifesteth it unto others.

From Project Gutenberg

This, I think, can rarely exist without the concomitancy of judgment; for how we can be said to have discovered the true essence of two things, without discerning their difference, seems to me hard to conceive.

From Project Gutenberg