parallelism
parallelism is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Resemblance; correspondence; similarity. A close parallelism of thought and incident. T. Warton.
- 2.Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: -- At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acclivity
- alongside
- angles
- ant
- ascent
- bank
- beach
- bend
- bevel
- bias
- cant
- coextension
- coextensive
- correlation
- crookedness
- curve
- declivity
- descent
- devexity
- dip
- distortion
- downhill
- easy
- equidistance
- equidistant
- fall
- gentle
- gradient
- ground
- have
- hill
- inclination
- intersect
- lack
- laterally
- leaning
- list
- lurch
- obliquity
- orthogonal
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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