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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Parallelism \Par"al*lel*ism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to place side by
side, or parallel: cf. F. parall['e]lisme.]
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1. The quality or state of being parallel.
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2. Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.
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A close parallelism of thought and incident. --T.
Warton.
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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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parallelism
n 1: similarity by virtue of corresponding [syn: {parallelism},
{correspondence}]
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