accordance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of granting rights

   the accordance to Canada of rights of access

2. 2
   noun

   Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.

   However, I do not think it appropriate to divide my history in accordance with this threefold partition, so as to deal with singular instances separately, but I shall mix the three kinds, joining things natural with artificial, ordinary with extraordinary, and paying very close attention to all the most useful ones.

3. 3
   noun

   concurrence of opinion

4. 4
   noun

   The act of granting something.

Etymology

* (compliance): First attested around 1300. * (agreement): First attested in the early 14th century. * accord + -ance * From Middle English accordaunce, from Old French acordance (“agreeing, reconciliation, harmony”).