concords

Noun (1)

concord (countable and uncountable, plural concords)

1. A state of agreement; harmony; union.
   • Love-quarrels oft in pleaſing concord end, / Not wedlock-treachery endangering life.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 62
2. (obsolete) An agreement by stipulation; a compact; a covenant; a treaty or league.
   • the concord made between King Henry II and Roderick O'Connor1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
3. Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.

   Synonyms:

   agreement, concordance

4. (obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.
   • The concord or agreement may be made of an estate and fee-simple, fee-tail, or life or for years; it may be also of divers remainders, and that to them that are no parties but strangers to the fine; it may be also single or double, with a render back again of some estate of the same land or some...1792, Edward Wood, John Joseph Powell, A Complete Body of Conveyancing: In Theory and Practice, page 548
5. (probably influenced by chord) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; a consonance; a harmony.
   • If the true concord of well tuned ſounds, / By vnions married to offend thine eare, / They do but ſweetly chide thee, who confounds / In ſingleneſſe the parts that thou ſhould'ſt beare.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 8”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

Noun (2)

concord (plural concords)

1. A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.

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