Obs. [see prec. and -ENCY.] Coincident quality or state; exact agreement or correspondence.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. x. § 3 (1622), 303. Wherein I will not censure, either any impropriety, or any coincidency.
1658. W. Burton, Itin. Anton., 62. Which two have no coincidencie, or suitablenesse.
1762. Gibbon, Misc. Wks. (1814), IV. 118. Yet passion and real misfortune, joined to the coincidency of place, could suggest it to Marius.
1794. G. Wakefield, Exam. Paine’s Age of Reason, I. 32. Such a variety of corroborating coincidencies.
