† contemporationn.
Obsolete.
The fact of occurring or coming to pass concurrently. Cf. contemporate v.Only in the context of interpretation of the events prophesied in the Book of Revelation.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun]
synchronism1588
concurrency1597
concurrence1605
contemporationa1638
contemporaneity1644
coincidence1650
simultaneitya1651
contemporaneousness1662
contermination1673
simulty1677
simultaneousness1786
coinstantaneitya1834
coinstantaneousness1848
onceness1866
synchrony1880
consentaneousness1882
synchroneity1909
a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1664) iii. 733 I cannot yet conceive how the Opening of the Temple in the 7. Trumpet..makes any thing for proof of the Contemporation of the Two Courts.
1675 R. Hayter Meaning of Revelation x. 117 Some of them [sc. Synchronisms] are true of a partial Contemporation, (as that the sealed Virgins do contemporate with the Beast) but none of them of a total.
1706 W. Whiston Ess. on Rev. i. ix. 62 The Contemporation of these four Prophecies [is] usually taken for granted by Interpreters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019).
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