different between agreement vs observance
agreement
English
Etymology
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.
Morphologically agree +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????i?m?nt/
Noun
agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)
- (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
- (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
Synonyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
- (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
- (A legally binding contract): settlement
- (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
- (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness
Coordinate terms
- (linguistics, grammar): rection
Hyponyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- consent, approval
See also
- consensus
- agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English agreement.
Noun
agreement m (invariable)
- agreement (pact, accord)
Anagrams
- magnerete
- mangerete
Middle English
Noun
agreement
- Alternative form of agrement
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observance
English
Alternative forms
- observancy (obsolete)
- observaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French observance, from Latin observantia. Equivalent of observe +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: ?b-zûr?v?ns, IPA(key): /?b?z?v?ns/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?z??v?ns/
- Hyphenation: ob?ser?vance
Noun
observance (countable and uncountable, plural observances)
- The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
- The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
- Observation or the act of watching.
- (religion) A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.
- That which is to be observed.
- Reverence; homage.
Antonyms
- misobservance
Derived terms
- hyperobservance
- misobservance
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p.s??.v??s/
Noun
observance f (plural observances)
- observance
Related terms
- observable
- observant
- observateur
- observer
References
- “observance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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