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Accord

noun

Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters. Synonym: agreement.

Concurrence of opinion. Synonyms: accordance, conformity.

A written agreement between two states or sovereigns. Synonyms: pact, treaty.

Sympathetic compatibility.

verb

(past & past part. accorded; pres. part. according)

Go together. Synonyms: agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize. "Their ideas concorded"

Allow to have. Synonyms: allot, grant.

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"Accord" Quotes from Famous Books

... herself). What a virtuous king he is! Would any other man hesitate when he saw such a pearl of a woman coming of her own accord? ...

— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works • Kaalidaasa

... messenger." With the last words he struck into a deep ravine which led to the remotest solitudes of the glen, and pursued his way in dreadful silence. No human face of Scot or English cheered or scared him as he passed along. The tumult had so alarmed the poor cottagers, that with one accord they fled to their kindred on the hills, amid those fastnesses of nature, to await tidings from the valley, of when all should be still, and they might return in peace. Halbert looked to the right and to the left; no smoke, curling its ...

— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter

... here of your own accord, because you loved me," said the Duke. "And you shall not go till you have told me why you have ...

— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm

... God governs the world; the actual working of His government, the carrying out of His plan, is the history of the world. This plan philosophy strives to comprehend; for only that which has been developed as the result of it possesses bona fide reality. That which does not accord with it is negative, worthless existence. Before the pure light of this divine Idea—which is no mere Ideal—the phantom of a world whose events are an incoherent concourse of fortuitous circumstances, utterly vanishes. Philosophy wishes to ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... loveliness, or all poetry and art is but an unsown, unplanted, rootless flower, crowning a somewhat symmetrical heap of stones. The man who sees no beauty in its petals, finds no perfume in its breath, may well accord it the parentage of the stones; the man whose heart swells beholding it will be ready to think it has roots that ...

— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald

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