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accordance

/əˈkɔː.dəns/ UK
/əˈkoɹ.dəns/ Canada, US
/əˈkoː.dəns/ Australia, New Zealand

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* (compliance): First attested around 1300.

* (agreement): First attested in the early 14th century.

* accord + -ance

* From Middle English accordaunce, from Old French acordance (“agreeing, reconciliation, harmony”).

noun accordances · accordaunce

countable, uncountable Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance. However, I do not think it appropriate to divide my history in accordance with this threefold partition, so as to deal with singular instances separately, but I shall mix the three kinds, joining things natural with artificial, ordinary with extraordinary, and paying very close attention to all the
countable, uncountable The act of granting something.

Similar: harmony, unison, coincidence

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: accord, conformity, according, concordance, concurrence, harmony, agreed, concur, pursuant, agree, congruence, conform, conformance, consistency, compatible, coherence

noun

Similar: harmony, unison, coincidence

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noun agreement; harmony; conformity

Español	acordanza
Português	acordo
Français	accordance
Deutsch	Übereinstimmung
Română	conformitate
Русский	соотве́тствие sootvétstvije, согла́сие soglásije

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@misc{accordance_2026,
  title = {accordance},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/accordance},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}