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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Concomitance  \Con*com"i*tance\,  Concomitancy  \Con*com"i*tan*cy\, 
  n.  [Cf.  F.  concomitance,  fr  LL  concomitantia.] 
  1.  The  state  of  accompanying;  accompaniment. 
 
  The  secondary  action  subsisteth  not  alone,  but  in 
  concomitancy  with  the  other  --Sir  T. 
  Browne. 
 
  2.  (R.C.Ch.)  The  doctrine  of  the  existence  of  the  entire  body 
  of  Christ  in  the  eucharist,  under  each  element,  so  that 
  the  body  and  blood  are  both  received  by  communicating  in 
  one  kind  only. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  concomitance 
  n  :  occurrence  or  existence  together  or  in  connection  with  one 
  another 

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