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Permitted vs Accorded - What's the difference?

permitted | accorded |

As verbs the difference between permitted and accorded

is that permitted is (permit) while accorded is (accord).

permitted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (permit)
  • *
  • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

    accorded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (accord)

  • accord

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
  • * 1769 ,
  • These all continued with one accord in prayer.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • a mediator of an accord and peace between them
  • A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
  • * 17th' ' century , "The Self-Subsistence of the Soul", ,
  • Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
  • Agreement or harmony of things in general.
  • the accord of light and shade in painting
  • (legal) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
  • (Blackstone)
  • (international law) An international agreement.
  • The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
  • (obsolete) Assent
  • Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
  • Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord .
  • * Bible, Leviticus xxv. 5
  • That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.

    Synonyms

    * (concurrence of opinion) consent, assent * (international agreement) treaty

    Derived terms

    * of its own accord, of one's own accord * with one accord

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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 ;
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Derived terms

    * accord with * accordance * according * accordingly * accordment * defence accord ----