accordance
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (obsolete) accordaunce
Etymology[edit]
- (compliance): First attested around 1300.
- (agreement): First attested in the early 14th century.
- accord + -ance
- From Middle English accordaunce, from Old French acordance (“agreeing, reconciliation, harmony”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
accordance (countable and uncountable, plural accordances)
- Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- in strict accordance with the law
- The act of granting something.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
agreement; harmony; conformity
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