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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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... former case may be assumed to be as fully in accord with the laws of the pupil's mind as the teacher could make it. In short, the topic under consideration had to be carefully broken into its parts, and various keen questions touching the meaning and value of each had to be conceived in order that ...

— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry

... out of reach. It was a fine chase while it lasted, though annoying; yet one could hardly help feeling amused at the way they wallowed along—just like a school of exaggerated porpoises. At last, after nearly two hours of the fun, they seemed to have had enough of it, and with one accord headed seaward at a greatly accelerated pace, as who should say, "Well, s' long, boys; company's very pleasant and all that, but we've got important business over at Fiji, and can't stay fooling around here any longer." In a quarter of an hour they were out of sight, leaving us disgusted and ...

— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen

... once about half the breast of the jam fell forward into the stream. Bob uttered an involuntary cry. But the practised rivermen must have foreseen this, for none were caught. At once the other logs at the breast began to topple of their own accord into the stream. The splashes threw the water high like the explosions of shells, and the thundering of the falling and grinding timbers resembled the roar of artillery. The pattern of the river changed, at first almost imperceptibly, then more and more rapidly. ...

— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White

... ask you graciously to accord me the honor of your hand. If you will grant me this favor I will endeavor to ...

— His Hour • Elinor Glyn

... find his mother!" she said again and again to herself. Yet it was not so wonderful. He had told her the name of the town, and she might have come here any time of her own accord. But it was strange and beautiful that the accident had brought her straight to the door of the house where he had been born and brought up! What a beautiful, happy boyhood he must have had with a mother like that! ...

— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill

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