Accord vs Observance - What's the difference?
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Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
* 1769 ,
* Francis Bacon
A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
* 17th' ' century , "The Self-Subsistence of the Soul", ,
Agreement or harmony of things in general.
(legal) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
(international law) An international agreement.
(obsolete) Assent
Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
* Bible, Leviticus xxv. 5
(lb) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
*1590 , (Philip Sidney), (w, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) , p.150:
*:[H]er hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice;
(lb) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
*, Book III:
*:But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay / And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, / Then when they were accorded from the fray
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:all which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning
(lb) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
*1593 , (William Shakespeare), , III-i:
*:For things are often spoke and seldom meant; / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—
*1671 , (John Milton), (Paradise Regained) , :
*:[T]hy actions to thy words accord ;
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
(lb) To agree in pitch and tone.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
*1951 , United Nations' , article 14:
*:In respect of the protection of industrial property,a refugee shall be accorded' in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is ' accorded to nationals of that country.
To give consent.
To arrive at an agreement.
The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule
The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion
Observation or the act of watching
(religion) A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church
Accord is a related term of observance.
As nouns the difference between accord and observance
is that accord is agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action while observance is the practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.As a verb accord
is (lb) to make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.accord
English
Noun
(en noun)- These all continued with one accord in prayer.
- a mediator of an accord and peace between them
- Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
- the accord of light and shade in painting
- (Blackstone)
- The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
- Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord .
- That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
