Accession vs Accede - What's the difference?
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A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
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(legal) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
(legal) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
(medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
Agreement.
Access; admittance.
(archaic) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
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To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
As verbs the difference between accession and accede
is that accession is to make a record of (additions to a collection) while accede is to approach; to arrive, to come forward.As a noun accession
is a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.accession
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Noun
(en noun)- The only accession that the Roman empire received was the province of Britain.
Antonyms
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Verb
(acced)- Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.