parallelism

[Fr. parallèlis me, from Gr. parallel is mos, from parallelos =parallel (q. v.).] I. Lit .: The quality or state of being parallel. "As soon as they a ume the property of inclosing space, they lose the property of parallelism ."-Lewes: History of Philosophy, і. сх. II. Figuratively : 1. Correspondence or similarity in important or e ential points. "The wonderful parallelisms in the myths of the Aryan world."- Cox : Aryan Mythology . (Pref.) 2. A comparison, a parallel. ""Tis easy to draw a parallelism between that ancient, and this more modern nothing."-Granville: Vanity of Dogmatizing, ch. xv. Parallelism of Hebrew Poetry : The repetition of the same sentiment in the first and second lines of a couplet, as in Job xxxix. 5. "Who hath sent out the wild a free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild a ?" Sometimes, as in Isa. xxiv. 4-6, there is a triplet; at others, as in xli. 9, a more complex arrangement. The parallelism is not apparent to the English 3004