Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an accordant. manner; in accordance or agreement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by
with orto .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In accordance or agreement;
agreeably ;conformably ; -- followed by "with" (note: "in accordance with" and "according to" are correct)
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Examples
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But when closer her step grew timid, her tread convulsed itself more and more accordantly with the time of the melody, till she very nearly danced along.
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May whatever positive force I have built up from explaining the Dharma contribute toward all beings accordantly achieving it.
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I believed in spiritism, and would be accordantly sympathetic with the author's ideas ....
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I believed in spiritism, and would be accordantly sympathetic with the author's ideas ....
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A work of art is the material bodying forth of the artist's sense of a meaning in life which unfolds itself to him as harmony and to which his spirit responds accordantly.
The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life
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But when closer her step grew timid, her tread convulsed itself more and more accordantly with the time of the melody, till she very nearly danced along.
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Scene Spirit, but an Abiding Spirit — accordantly with Christ's own promise — "He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever."
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Certain of those shrewd old ecclesiastics had in fact detected that the devout lad, so visibly impressed, was not altogether after their kind; that, together with many characteristics obviously inherited, he possessed -- had caught perhaps from some ancestor unrepresented here -- some other potencies of nature, which might not always combine so accordantly as to-day with the mental requisites of an occasion such as this.
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The Eucharist of those early days was, even more entirely than at any later or happier time, an act of thanksgiving; and while the remnants of the feast are borne away for the reception of the sick, the sustained gladness of the rite reaches its highest point in the singing of a hymn: a hymn like the spontaneous product of two opposed militant companies, contending accordantly together, heightening, accumulating, their witness, provoking one another's worship, in a kind of sacred rivalry.
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