accords

Noun

accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)

1. Agreement of opinion, will, or action.
   • These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Iesus, and with his brethen.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:14

   Synonyms:

   consent, assent

2. Agreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord.
   • Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.17th century, Sir John Davies, The Self-Subsistence of the Soul
3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
   • the accord of light and shade in painting
4. (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
   • Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees.2010, Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Faith C. Belanger, Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
5. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
   • Accord is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which , when performed , is a bar of all actions upon this account1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
6. (international law) An international agreement.
   • The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.

   Synonyms:

   treaty

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