2 meanings, 22 uses
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1 —19 uses as in:
according to, or in accord with
Definition
in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity with
This sense 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
- Wemmick explained to me ... that this was according to custom, and...Chapter 37 (65% in)
according to = in agreement with
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- As to me, I think my sister must have had some general idea that I was a young offender whom an Accoucheur Policeman had taken up (on my birthday) and delivered over to her, to be dealt with according to the outraged majesty of the law.Chapter 4 (20% in)
- You would have been disposed of for so many shillings according to the market price of the article, and Dunstable the butcher would have come up to you as you lay in your straw, and he would have whipped you under his left arm, and with his right he would have tucked up his frock to get a penknife from out of his waistcoat-pocket, and he would have shed your blood and had your life.Chapter 4 (69% in)
- It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.Chapter 8 (79% in)
- Accordingly, I started at once, and she leaned upon my shoulder, and we went away at a pace that might have been an imitation (founded on my first impulse under that roof) of Mr. Pumblechook's chaise-cart.Chapter 11 (42% in)
- He seemed to have no strength, and he never once hit me hard, and he was always knocked down; but he would be up again in a moment, sponging himself or drinking out of the water-bottle, with the greatest satisfaction in seconding himself according to form, and then came at me with an air and a show that made me believe he really was going to do for me at last.Chapter 11 (93% in)
- ...same man, remember," pursued the gentleman, throwing his finger at Mr. Wopsle heavily,—"that same man might be summoned as a juryman upon this very trial, and, having thus deeply committed himself, might return to the bosom of his family and lay his head upon his pillow, after deliberately swearing that he would well and truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!"Chapter 18 (20% in)
- It is considered that you must be better educated, in accordance with your altered position, and that you will be alive to the importance and necessity of at once entering on that advantage.Chapter 18 (50% in)
- Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had a toady neighbor; a widow lady of that highly sympathetic nature that she agreed with everybody, blessed everybody, and shed smiles and tears on everybody, according to circumstances.Chapter 23 (34% in)
- For the present may be a werry good inn, according to London opinions," said Joe, confidentially, "and I believe its character do stand i; but I wouldn't keep a pig in it myself,—not in the case that I wished him to fatten wholesome and to eat with a meller flavor on him."Chapter 27 (47% in)
- One was a taller and stouter man than the other, and appeared as a matter of course, according to the mysterious ways of the world, both convict and free, to have had allotted to him the smaller suit of clothes.Chapter 28 (28% in)
- According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true.Chapter 29 (6% in)
- When he appeared with his stocking disordered (its disorder expressed, according to usage, by one very neat fold in the top, which I suppose to be always got up with a flat iron), a conversation took place in the gallery respecting the paleness of his leg, and whether it was occasioned by the turn the ghost had given him.Chapter 31 (29% in)
- But here I anticipate a little, for I was not a Finch, and could not be, according to the sacred laws of the society, until I came of age.Chapter 34 (27% in)
- On a certain occasion when the Finches were assembled in force, and when good feeling was being promoted in the usual manner by nobody's agreeing with anybody else, the presiding Finch called the Grove to order, forasmuch as Mr. Drummle had not yet toasted a lady; which, according to the solemn constitution of the society, it was the brute's turn to do that day.Chapter 38 (67% in)
- To whom I imparted how my uncle had come in the night and was then asleep, and how the breakfast preparations were to be modified accordingly.Chapter 40 (20% in)
- His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.Chapter 42 (21% in)
- While I described the disaster, Mr. Jaggers stood, according to his wont, before the fire.Chapter 51 (15% in)
- We should know at what time to expect them, according to where we were, and would hail the first; so that, if by any accident we were not taken abroad, we should have another chance.Chapter 54 (6% in)
There are no more uses of "accord" flagged with this meaning in Great Expectations.
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2 —1 use as in:
accord her the respect deserved
Definition
to give someone special treatment — especially respect
- He further gave me leave to accompany the prisoner to London; but declined to accord that grace to my two friends.Chapter 54 (89% in)
accord = give special treatment
There are no more uses of "accord" flagged with this meaning in Great Expectations.
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? —2 uses
exact meaning not specified
- And it ever will be similar according.Chapter 18 (61% in)
- For a day or two, I lay on the sofa, or on the floor,—anywhere, according as I happened to sink down,—with a heavy head and aching limbs, and no purpose, and no power.Chapter 57 (3% in)
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