All 15 Uses of
accord
in
The House of Mirth
- She accordingly installed herself in the Madison Avenue house, and Percy, whose sense of duty was not inferior to his mother's, spent all his week days in the handsome Broad Street office where a batch of pale men on small salaries had grown grey in the management of the Gryce estate, and where he was initiated with becoming reverence into every detail of the art of accumulation.†
Chpt 1.2 (definition 1)
- Society is a revolving body which is apt to be judged according to its place in each man's heaven; and at present it was turning its illuminated face to Lily.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- Selden had come of his own accord.
Chpt 1.5 (definition 2) *own accord = voluntarily (without someone asking)
- Perhaps it's not over with Bertha after all," Mrs. Trenor musingly concluded; and went away to arrange her dinner-cards accordingly.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)
- —I can't eat a mouthful of this stuff, you know," he added suddenly, pushing back his plate with a clouded countenance; and Lily, unfailingly adaptable, accorded her radiant attention to his prolonged denunciation of other people's cooks, with a supplementary tirade on the toxic qualities of melted butter.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)
- Miss Bart, accordingly, rose the next morning with the most earnest conviction that it was her duty to go to church.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)
- Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 1)
- Isn't it fairer to look at them both as opportunities, which may be used either stupidly or intelligently, according to the capacity of the user?"†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 1)
- Everything, accordingly, was well done, for there was no limit to Mrs. Fisher's prodigality when she was not spending her own money, and as she remarked to her pupil, a good cook was the best introduction to society.†
Chpt 1.10 (definition 1)
- prices fell in accordance with that peculiar law which proves...
Chpt 1.11 (definition 1) *accordance = keeping (or in agreement with)
- The mere fact of growing richer at a time when most people's investments are shrinking, is calculated to attract envious attention; and according to Wall Street rumours, Welly Bry and Rosedale had found the secret of performing this miracle.†
Chpt 1.11 (definition 1)
- Even such scant civilities as Lily accorded to Mr. Rosedale would have made Miss Stepney her friend for life;
Chpt 1.11 (definition 3) *accorded = gave respectfully
- One or two of the men wandered off in search of their partners for supper, and the others, noticing Selden's approach, gave way to him in accordance with the tacit freemasonry of the ball-room.†
Chpt 1.12 (definition 1)
- "Look here, Lily: won't you give me five minutes of your own accord?"†
Chpt 1.13 (definition 2)
- She did not wish to probe the inwardness of Lily's situation, but simply to view it from the outside, and draw her conclusions accordingly; and these conclusions, at the end of a confidential talk, she summed up to her friend in the succinct remark: "You must marry as soon as you can."†
Chpt 2.5 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (accord as in: according to, or in accord with) in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity withThis meaning of accord is often seen in the form according to or accordingly where it can take on more specific meanings. For example:
- "According to Kim, ..." -- as stated by
- "To each according to her ability." -- based upon
- "Points are scored according to how well they perform." -- depending upon
- "The dose is calculated according to body weight." -- in proportion to
- "We got a flat tire. Accordingly, I pulled to the side of the road." -- because of what was just said; or as a result
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(2) (accord as in: done of her own accord) mindeditor's notes: This sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.
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(3) (accord as in: accord her the respect deserved) to give someone special treatment -- especially respect