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‘here the produce of this extensive territory concentres’
‘Penn's letter, of 1683, to the Free Society of Traders, sufficiently intimates the cause of its location there, showing that Penn expected business to concentre there.’
‘Some dissatisfaction turns his meditation into what Charles Berger calls the ‘dark countersong’ of a ‘counter-sublime’, as it questions the relation between ‘concentred self’ and Other, between particular and general.’
‘The fury of the battle seemed to concentre there, and through the time-worn walls the shot was plunging, splintering the planks and beams, and shivering the stone foundation.’
1.2archaic Bring (two or more things) towards a common centre.
‘a passion in which soul and body were concentred’
Origin
Late 16th century: from French concentrer, from Latin con- ‘together’ + centrum ‘centre’.