Consistence vs Concurrence - What's the difference?
consistence | concurrence |
(archaic) The physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency.
* Arbuthnot
The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things.
(obsolete) Standing still; quiescence; state of rest.
(obsolete) The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
* Francis Bacon
* Jeremy Taylor
(obsolete) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
* Milton
As a noun consistence
is (archaic) the physical quality which is given by the degree of firmness, solidity, density, and viscosity; consistency.As a verb concurrence is
.consistence
English
Noun
- Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup.
- Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.
- This composer's musical work is of extraordinary consistence .
- Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence .
- We are as water, weak, and of no consistence .
- The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.