"symphoric" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek συμφορά (sumphorá, “mishap, mischance, misfortune”)?",
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          "ref": "1789, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation:",
          "text": "Who would have endured in this place to have seen two such words as the phthano-paranomic or crime-preventing, and the phthano-symphoric or calamity-preventing, branches of the police?",
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          "ref": "1989, Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison's Watching, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Walk a mile in my snowshoes, I say, before you deal thus harshly with a poor, unfortunate symphoric nyctalopian, come at the dwindling twilight of his life to a state of repentance and hiatus hernia. Ah, you nullifidians, you!",
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          "text": "\"Just unhook it and come on down. It’s very simple I assure you, old fellow. And perfectly safe unless you are symphoric perhaps.\"",
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          "text": "Both the symphoric (integrational) phase of the metaphysical, namely ‘mediation’ (cf. ⑥ and ?⃝) and our intermodal triad, termed ‘module’, derive from templates as ancient as the fundamental PH-PX asymmetry and the fundamental PX-SZ asymmetry. All of metaphysics is ultimately aimed at mediating between immortal PH and mortal PX.",
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          "text": "Senn’s paper on “Symphoric Joyce” queried where the pun begins and ends and noted the “symphoric” quality of Joyce’s writing—bringing various nodes of signification together in the text.",
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