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Concordat vs Alliance - What's the difference?

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Concordat is a related term of alliance.


As verbs the difference between concordat and alliance

is that concordat is while alliance is (obsolete) to connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

As a noun alliance is

(uncountable) the state of being allied.

concordat

English

(wikipedia concordat)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.
  • * 1820 , Theodore Lyman, The Political State of Italy
    • That eminent and independant statesman, Count Louis of Medicis, concluded a concordat with cardinal Gonsalvi, at Terracina, on the 16th February, 1816, probably the most humiliating instrument to which the Roman court has been forced to submit since the fall of the Bonapartes.
  • * 1846 , William Scott, The Christian Remembrancer
    • The Concordat of the See of Rome with King Diniz is the most interesting ecclesiastical epoch […].
  • * 2000 , Bruno Kreisky, Matthew Paul Berg, The Struggle for a Democratic Austria: Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice , page 486
    • Later, he also promoted a significant degree of reconciliation between the Austrian social democratic movement and the Roman Catholic Church through the negotiation of the 1960 Concordat.
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 116:
    • 1527: when the cardinal comes back from France, he immediately begins ordering up banquets. French ambassadors are expected, to set the seal on his concordat .

    alliance

    English

    (alliance)

    Alternative forms

    * alliaunce

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being allied.
    • matrimonial alliances'''; an '''alliance between church and state, or between two countries
  • (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
  • (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
  • (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
  • * C. J. Smith
    • the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel
  • * Mansel
    • the alliance between logic and metaphysics
  • (with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
    • (Udall)

    Synonyms

    * (union by relationship in qualities) connection, affinity, union * (act of allying) union * (persons or parties allied) coalition, league, confederation, team (informal)

    Related terms

    * ally

    Verb

    (allianc)
  • (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

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