accordance

• (obsolete) accordaunce

• (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”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈkɔɹ.dəns/

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accordance (countable and uncountable, plural accordances)

1. Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     in strict accordance with the law

2. The act of granting something.

• harmony, unison, coincidence

• in accordance with
• unaccordance