Concordance vs Precept - What's the difference?
concordance | precept |
agreement; accordance; consonance
* (rfdate)
(grammar, obsolete) concord; agreement.
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.
* c. 1857 , (Thomas Macaulay), "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ,
(computational linguistics) a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
* 2006 : ,
** I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept .
* 1891 :
** He found a people in the extreme of barbarism living in caves, feeding upon the bloody flesh of animals they killed in hunting; he taught them many things, so that by his example, and for generations after he left them by his precepts , they advanced to high civilization.
(legal) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
As nouns the difference between concordance and precept
is that concordance is agreement; accordance; consonance while precept is a rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.As a verb precept is
to teach by precepts.concordance
English
(wikipedia concordance)Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Contrasts, and yet concordances .
- His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
precept
English
(wikipedia precept)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Gift of Language
