Agreement vs Countenance - What's the difference?
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(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
(uncountable, legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
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An agreeable quality.
* 1650 , (John Donne), "Elegie XVII":
Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
* , Genesis 4:5
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}
Favour; support; encouragement.
* (Bible), (Psalms) xxi. 6
* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
(label) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
* (Roger Ascham) (1515-1568)
To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
* 1925 , Franz Kafka, The Trial'', ''Vintage Books (London) , pg. 99:
Agreement is a related term of countenance.
As nouns the difference between agreement and countenance
is that agreement is (countable) an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct while countenance is appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.As a verb countenance is
to tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.agreement
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Noun
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement . More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
Synonyms
* (An understanding to follow a course of conduct) concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty * (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion) congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord * (A legally binding contract) settlement * concord * (An agreeable quality) amenity, pleasantness, nicenessDerived terms
* agreement coorporation * agreement in principle * Buttonwood Agreement * collective agreement * concession agreement * framework agreement * gentleman's agreement * heads of agreement * in agreement * interest rate agreement * knock-for-knock agreement * letter agreement * margin agreement * Multilateral Agreement * nondisclosure agreement * option agreement * partnership agreement * prenuptial agreement * purchase agreement * sales agreement * Schengen Agreement * security agreement * service level agreement * single union agreement * Smithsonian Agreement * standby agreement * standstill agreement * strike an agreement with * subordination agreement * subscription agreement * throughput agreement * tolling agreement * tripartite agreement * underwriting agreement * working agreementHyponyms
* (An understanding to follow a course of conduct) conspiracySee also
* consent, approvalSee also
* consensus * (wikipedia)Statistics
* ----countenance
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Alternative forms
* countenaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
- Thou hast made himglad with thy countenance .
- This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice.
- The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(countenanc)- ''The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal.
- For the Defence was not actually countenanced by the Law, but only tolerated, and there were differences of opinion even on that point, whether the Law could be interpreted to admit such tolerances at all.