Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CO-IN'CI-DENCE, n.

1. The falling or meeting of two or more lines, surfaces, or bodies in the same point. – Bentley.
2. Concurrence; consistency; agreement; as, the coincidence of two or more opinions; coincidence of evidences. – Hale.
3. A meeting of events in time; concurrence; a happening at the same time; as, coincidence of events.