All 50 Uses of
accord
in
War and Peace
- She will come running to me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything.†
Chpt 1own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
- Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to Lorrain's instructions.†
Chpt 1according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics.†
Chpt 1
- carefully prepared in accord with the modern science of...
Chpt 2 *accord = in keeping (or in agreement)
- According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the night.†
Chpt 2according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- Rook pulled at the reins and started of his own accord.†
Chpt 2own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
- "It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are coming to us of their own accord," incautiously remarked the little princess on hearing the news.†
Chpt 3
- More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written code, but under this unwritten law.†
Chpt 3according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- The troops of the center, the reserves, and Bagration's right flank had not yet moved, but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, were already up and astir.†
Chpt 3
- According to the dispositions...†
Chpt 3
- Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest.†
Chpt 4
- In accordance with Lise's and Prince Andrew's wishes they had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at any moment.†
Chpt 4accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
- What distinguished them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his visitors.†
Chpt 4according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the Rhetor's instructions.†
Chpt 5
- He had become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his success and at the inability of others to understand these things.†
Chpt 5
- He had become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his success and at the inability of others to understand these things.†
Chpt 5
- Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical or appreciative according to the way the joke was received.†
Chpt 5
- Those who retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to that it is we who lost the battle of Pultusk.†
Chpt 5
- The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling the forests in the province of Kostroma, the land lower down the river, and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which operations according to him were connected with such complicated measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: "Yes, yes, do so."†
Chpt 5
- Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.†
Chpt 5
- Everywhere he saw the stewards' accounts, according to which the serfs' manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue coats.†
Chpt 5
- These according to Pierre's observations were men who had no belief in anything, nor desire for anything, but joined the Freemasons merely to associate with the wealthy young Brothers who were influential through their connections or rank, and of whom there were very many in the lodge.†
Chpt 6
- Apart from the fact that he had asked me several times whether N. and S. were members of our lodge (a question to which I could not reply) and that according to my observation he is incapable of feeling respect for our holy order and is too preoccupied and satisfied with the outer man to desire spiritual improvement, I had no cause to doubt him, but he seemed to me insincere, and all the time I stood alone with him in the dark temple it seemed to me that he was smiling contemptuously at my words, and I wished really to stab his bare breast with the sword I held to it.†
Chpt 6
- The visitor was Bitski, who served on various committees, frequented all the societies in Petersburg, and a passionate devotee of the new ideas and of Speranski, and a diligent Petersburg newsmonger—one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes according to the fashion, but who for that very reason appear to be the warmest partisans.†
Chpt 6
- * Vera at the same time smiling with a sense of superiority over her good, conscientious husband, who all the same understood life wrongly, as according to Vera all men did.†
Chpt 6
- Vera, having decided in her own mind that Pierre ought to be entertained with conversation about the French embassy, at once began accordingly.†
Chpt 6accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace.
Chpt 7 *own accord = own mind (without anyone asking)
- When they came out onto the beaten highroad—polished by sleigh runners and cut up by rough-shod hoofs, the marks of which were visible in the moonlight—the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace.†
Chpt 7own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
- All he cared about was gaiety and women, and as according to his ideas there was nothing dishonorable in these tastes, and he was incapable of considering what the gratification of his tastes entailed for others, he honestly considered himself irreproachable, sincerely despised rogues and bad people, and with a tranquil conscience carried his head high.†
Chpt 8according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- Pfuel and his adherents demanded a retirement into the depths of the country in accordance with precise laws defined by a pseudo-theory of war, and they saw only barbarism, ignorance, or evil intention in every deviation from that theory.†
Chpt 9accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
- They insisted on the retention of the camp at Drissa, according to Pfuel's plan, but on changing the movements of the other armies.†
Chpt 9according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- And he acted accordingly.†
Chpt 9accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- By Agrafena Ivanovna's advice Natasha prepared herself not in their own parish, but at a church where, according to the devout Agrafena Ivanovna, the priest was a man of very severe and lofty life.†
Chpt 9according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel!†
Chpt 9
- The troops are moved according to the enemy's movements and the number of men increases and decreases...†
Chpt 9
- They would have had to retire of their own accord, for they had no water for men or horses.†
Chpt 10own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
- And in Helene's salon, which Rumyantsev himself honored with his visits, regarding Helene as a remarkably intelligent woman, they talked with the same ecstasy in 1812 as in 1808 of the "great nation" and the "great man," and regretted our rupture with France, a rupture which, according to them, ought to be promptly terminated by peace.†
Chpt 10according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- The fact was accordingly conveyed to Lavrushka.†
Chpt 10accordingly = in keeping with or in agreement with what was just stated
- Heaven only knows who arranged all this and when, but it all got done as if of its own accord.†
Chpt 10own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
- Many of them were punished, some sent to Siberia, many died of cold and hunger on the road, many returned of their own accord, and the movement died down of itself just as it had sprung up, without apparent reason.†
Chpt 10
- Alpatych named others, but they too, according to Dron, had no horses available: some horses were carting for the government, others were too weak, and others had died for want of fodder.†
Chpt 10according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- Let it all be done properly, according to rule.†
Chpt 10
- The only instruction Kutuzov gave of his own accord during that report referred to looting by the Russian troops.†
Chpt 10own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
- Pierre stepped out of his carriage and, passing the toiling militiamen, ascended the knoll from which, according to the doctor, the battlefield could be seen.†
Chpt 10according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- Bennigsen did not know this and moved the troops forward according to his own ideas without mentioning the matter to the commander in chief.†
Chpt 10
- After the advance has begun in this manner, orders will be given in accordance with the enemy's movements.†
Chpt 10accordance = keeping with; or agreement with
- But in the disposition it is said that, after the fight has commenced in this manner, orders will be given in accordance with the enemy's movements, and so it might be supposed that all necessary arrangements would be made by Napoleon during the battle.†
Chpt 10
- They did not fear getting into trouble for not fulfilling orders or for acting on their own initiative, for in battle what is at stake is what is dearest to man—his own life—and it sometimes seems that safety lies in running back, sometimes in running forward; and these men who were right in the heat of the battle acted according to the mood of the moment.†
Chpt 10according to = as stated by; or in agreement with
- As soon as they left the place where the balls and bullets were flying about, their superiors, located in the background, re-formed them and brought them under discipline and under the influence of that discipline led them back to the zone of fire, where under the influence of fear of death they lost their discipline and rushed about according to the chance promptings of the throng.†
Chpt 10
- Those who were able to get away were going of their own accord, those who remained behind decided for themselves what they must do.†
Chpt 11own accord = own mind -- voluntarily (without anyone asking)
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: reached an accord) an agreementIn this sense, accord can refer to a formal agreement (such as one written between two countries) or an informal agreement (such as an unvoiced consensus about what should be done).
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(3)
(accord as in: done of her own accord) mindThis sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.
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(4)
(accord as in: accord her the respect deserved) to give someone special treatment -- especially respect