accord
/əˈkoɹd/ noun C2- Agreement of opinion, will, or action.
- Agreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general. · the accord of light and shade in painting
- A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
- An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- An international agreement. · The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. · Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
Plural accords
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Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below.
why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?” The Stag replied: “Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to find some favourable opportunity of effecting my escape.” At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him.
THE HARES, oppressed by their own exceeding timidity and weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles by jumping from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below.
I imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to it, but he soon dispelled the idea by coming round to the subject of his own accord.
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