parallelism
IPA: pˈɛrʌɫɛɫɪzʌm
noun
- The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
- The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
- A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
- (rhetoric, grammar) The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
- (philosophy) The doctrine that matter and mind do not causally interact but that physiological events in the brain or body nonetheless occur simultaneously with matching events in the mind.
- (law) In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same amount at roughly the same time, without engaging in a formal agreement to do so.
- (biology) Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
- (computing) The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.
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Examples of "parallelism" in Sentences
- Euphrates (answering in parallelism to "Assyria") [Maurer].
- In my opinion, parallelism is more of a rhetorical technique than an absolute syntactic necessity.
- Yes, I certainly agree that parallelism is one of the biggest fundamental challenges we have to make more headway on.
- Everyone from schoolchildren to undergraduates to businessfolk are exhorted to maintain parallelism in writing and speech:
- The two most solemn facts of our being are here connected with the two most gracious truths of our dispensation, our death and judgment answering in parallelism to
- Umbreit for "watering," &c., translates; "Brightness drives away the clouds, His light scattereth the thick clouds"; the parallelism is thus good, but the Hebrew hardly sanctions it.
- But the parallelism is that of one clause complementing the other, "the inhabitant" or subject here answering to "him that holdeth the scepter" or ruler there, both ruler and subject alike being cut off.
- Thus the parallelism is best carried out in all the three clauses of the verse, and there is a similar play on sounds in each, in the Hebrew Gath, resembling in sound the Hebrew for "declare"; Acco, resembling the
- Yet men smote and spat on them (Isa 50: 6). bed -- full, like the raised surface of the garden bed; fragrant with ointments, as beds with aromatic plants (literally, "balsam"). sweet flowers -- rather, "terraces of aromatic herbs" -- "high-raised parterres of sweet plants," in parallelism to "bed," which comes from a
- The clauses stand in parallelism; each two are connected as a pair, and form an antithesis turning on the opposition of heaven to earth; the order of this antithesis is reversed in each new pair of clauses: flesh and spirit, angels and Gentiles, world and glory; and there is a correspondence between the first and the last clause: "manifested in the flesh, received up into glory"
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