accordant
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adjective
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Etymology
Origin of accordant
1275–1325; Middle English acordant < Old French. See accord, -ant
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Both were demoted on Sept. 7, 2021, accordant to court documents.
From Fox News ● Mar. 10, 2022
The hotels, office buildings, and apartment complexes of central Madison rise no more than a hundred and ninety feet, forming an accordant skyline.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2015
In recent troubled times, he has been clear to remind that sport is just sport and that when his stint as captain ends, he'll accept it in accordant context.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
Arsenal's amazing unbroken record, and accordant establishment glamour, often obscures the fact that it's people's club Everton who hold the record for most seasons spent in the top flight.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2012
Some, indeed, read “ye have been reconciled,” but the preponderance of authority is in favour of the text as it stands, which yields a sense accordant with the usual mode of representation.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
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