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concomitant


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Concomitant  \Con*com"i*tant\,  a.  [F.,  fr  L.  con-  +  comitari  to 
  accompany,  comes  companion.  See  {Count}  a  nobleman.] 
  Accompanying;  conjoined;  attending. 
 
  It  has  pleased  our  wise  Creator  to  annex  to  several 
  objects,  as  also  to  several  of  our  thoughts,  a 
  concomitant  pleasure.  --Locke. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Concomitant  \Con*com"i*tant\,  n. 
  One  who  or  that  which  accompanies,  or  is  collaterally 
  connected  with  another;  a  companion;  an  associate;  an 
  accompaniment. 
 
  Reproach  is  a  concomitant  to  greatness.  --Addison. 
 
  The  other  concomitant  of  ingratitude  is 
  hardheartedness.  --South. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  concomitant 
  adj  :  following  as  a  consequence;  "an  excessive  growth  of 
  bureaucracy,  with  related  problems";  "snags  incidental 
  to  the  changeover  in  management"  [syn:  {accompanying}, 
  {attendant},  {incidental},  {incidental  to(p)}] 
  n  :  an  event  or  situation  that  happens  at  the  same  time  as  or  in 
  connection  with  another  [syn:  {accompaniment},  {co-occurrence}] 




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