non-concurrencen.
/ˌnɒnkənˈkʌrəns/, /ˌnɒnkənˈkʌrn̩s/, /ˌnɒnkəŋˈkʌrəns/, /ˌnɒnkəŋˈkʌrn̩s/, U.S. /ˌnɑnkənˈkər(ə)ns/ 1. Lack of agreement; refusal or inability to concur or agree; an instance of this.
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the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [noun] > refusal to assent or agree > a refusal
non-concurrence1647
non-concurrency1647
1647 Perfect Diurnall No. 215. 1725 The debate about dispatch of the Propositions took up some time, and the Non-concurrence of the Scotch Commissioners some obstruction to the same.
1678 T. Pierce Let. 5 Mar. in I. Walton Life of Sanderson sig. o1v Bishop Sanderson's last Judgment concerning God's Concurrence or Non-concurrence with the Actions of men.
1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. Pref. p. ccix The Non-concurrence of the Upper House of Convocation with the Lower.
1805 Massachusetts Spy 17 July 3/3 A non-concurrence of the Council in a measure of this sort would, perhaps, be almost an unprecedented event.
1886 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 592/1 Is the non-concurrence of the obstinate juryman in a righteous verdict owing to an honest conviction, or has he been unconsciously psychologized by the lawyer who has the biggest fee in his pocket?
1956 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 25 362/2 Our Southland is becoming a place where non-concurrence with the established orthodoxy is cause for rejection.
1990 A. Cowgill Repatriations from Austria in 1945 (BNC) 37 He would have to send his telegram in spite of our non-concurrence.
2. Physics. The property of lines or rays of not meeting or intersecting each other; = non-concurrency n. 2. Now rare.
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the world > space > relative position > state or position of being parallel > [noun]
parallelism1610
collaterality1611
collateralness1611
parallel1654
non-concurrency1705
parallelarity1804
non-concurrence1886
parallelity1970
1886 Proc. Royal Soc. 40 406 [The] curves..would either be concurrent or they would not... If not, the errors must have been so curiously distributed as to preserve the non-concurrence.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 55/2 Aberration in optical systems..may be defined as the non-concurrence of rays from the points of an object after transmission through the system.
3. Lack of concurrence or coincidence in time.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > non-correspondence in time
asynchronism1875
non-contemporaneity1883
non-concurrence1956
non-concurrency1969
1956 Shakespeare Q. 7 164 There is no scene in which neither of the doors can serve... But to argue against the use of property gates because of the non-concurrence of compelling conditions would be to suppose [etc.].
1978 Physiol. Psychol. 6 89 Death depended neither on the absolute saccharin amount per gram of body weight nor on the nonconcurrence of saccharin and food ingestion.
1997 Jrnl. Politics 59 546 The estimated coefficients for the presidential election years of 1983 and 1989 are not significantly different from those of most of the nonconcurrent congressional years.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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