collocation

We cannot tell whether it depends wholly on laws, or partly on laws and partly on a collocation.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
If it depends on a collocation, it will be true in all the cases in which that particular collocation exists.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
The derivative law in this case depends not solely on laws, but on a collocation; and collocations cannot be reduced to any law.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
Whereas Descartes made the union between them a violent collocation, Geulincx practically called it a miracle.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8|Various

The collocation of "grace" and "strength" in the ninth verse is characteristic of the New Testament, and very significant.
Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians|James Denney

British Dictionary definitions for collocation

collocation

/ (ˌkɒləˈkeɪʃən) /

noun

a grouping together of things in a certain order, as of the words in a sentence

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