Accordingly meaning

Adverb: accordingly

Pronunciation:(u’kor-ding-lee)

Accordingly meaning:

• (sentence connectors) because of the reason given

Synonyms: consequently

• In accordance with

Noun: accord

Quotations:

1. Søren Kierkegaard – The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
2. Zora Neale Hurston – Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
3. Adolf Hitler – Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it. During the War the heaviest of penalties had to be paid for that ignorance.
4. Arthur Schopenhauer – Philosophy is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
5. J.D. Salinger – Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
6. Epictetus – Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Sample sentences:

1. My fore-parts, as you so in-eloquently put it, have names.”I pointed to my right breast. “This is Danger.” Then my left. “And this is Will Robinson. I would appreciate it if you addressed them accordingly.” After a long pause in which he took the time to blink several times, he asked, “You named your breasts?”I turned my back to him with a shrug. “I named my ovaries, too, but they don’t get out as much.
2. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
3. We’re all fools,” said Clemens, “all the time. It’s just we’re a different kind each day. We think, I’m not a fool today. I’ve learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.
4. The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.
5. Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available with this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you’ve had in your mind for so long. Remember, success is something you experience when you act accordingly.
6. She is an adult, so you should treat her accordingly.
7. Living is dear, accordingly we have to economize.
8. You must judge the situation and act accordingly.
9. We suggest you adjust your records accordingly.
10. She was asked to go, and she left accordingly.
11. Watch your leader and act accordingly.
12. These are the rules; act accordingly.
13. Accordingly I gave up my plans.
14. Could a tiny, flexible patch on your skin read your emotions and change things in your environment accordingly?
15. How will AI evolve in 2017, and how should business owners and marketers prepare accordingly?
16. But as we shall see, coherent discourse also uses devices that differ from the branching of a tree, and our metaphors must expand accordingly.
17. The territory of political rhetoric is, accordingly, that of possibility.
18. The drugs had been increased, and the line on Matty’s chart rose accordingly.
19. If you want to use fewer, reduce the other ingredients accordingly.
20. In formal prose, a writer should mentally move the word back to its original position in the tree and choose who or whom accordingly.
21. Lawrence tailored his research program and his fund-raising campaign accordingly.
22. The magic horn had become so attuned to her emotions it could amplify her anger, love or grief and spew forth its bounty accordingly.
23. There could be those who will see it so and act accordingly.
24. Accordingly, senior staff were reluctant to disturb what appeared to be Ossining’s equilibrium.
25. Carl was a local boy who knew a thing or two about hexes and about Milagro history, and so he reacted accordingly.
26. The dull pain in his belly never went away, but sometimes it grew better and sometimes worse, and his thoughts expanded or contracted accordingly.
27. The magistrate accordingly sent a message ordering my father to appear before him.
28. He might well have guessed why his son was coming home at long last, and acted accordingly.
29. It is perhaps unnecessary to postulate that since monastic houses differed greatly in size and wealth, the sources of their income would differ accordingly.
30. Each rank, except the very highest, was continually brought into contact with a superior, and a feeling of constant dependence and subordination was accordingly fostered.