Hypertext Webster Gateway: "parallelism"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Parallelism \Par"al*lel*ism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to place side by
side, or parallel: cf. F. parall['e]lisme.]
1. The quality or state of being parallel.

2. Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.

A close parallelism of thought and incident. --T.
Warton.

3. 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

parallelism
n : similarity by virtue of correspondence [syn: {correspondence}]


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