[f. ACCORD v. + -ER1.] One who accords; one who agrees; one who cordially grants or bestows.
1860. L. Hunt, Autobiog., ix. 174. Hearty accorders with the dictum of the apostle, who said that the ‘letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.’
1861. Cornhill Mag., III. 543. There is only one modern instance of a sovereign raising an unmarried lady to a place in the peerage out of pure gallantry, and with attendant increase of respect and honour both to the accorder and to the recipient.
