Con*cord"ance (?), n. [F., fr. LL. concordantia.] 1. Agreement; accordance.
Contrasts, and yet concordances.
Carlyle.
2. Gram. Concord; agreement. [Obs.]
Aschlam.
3. An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
Macaulay.
4. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.
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