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Accompaniment   /əkˈəmpnɪmənt/  /əkˈəmpnimənt/   Listen
Accompaniment

noun
1.
An event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another.  Synonyms: attendant, co-occurrence, concomitant.
2.
A musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts.  Synonyms: backup, musical accompaniment, support.
3.
Something added to complete or embellish or make perfect.  Synonym: complement.  "Wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish"
4.
The act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them.  Synonym: escort.



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"Accompaniment" Quotes from Famous Books



... very nature partakes of our fallen condition; it is not a paradisiacal institution; it is not good in itself; it is an accompaniment of the loss which we have incurred by sin. In that light it is proper to speak of the Most High as adapting his legislation to the depraved condition of man; but that is no more true of slavery than of redemption; everything in the treatment ...
— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams

... they put him out accordingly, to the great advantage of both parties and without loss of mutual respect and love. A little later, a clever woman, Mrs. Ann Hutchinson, with a vast conceit of her superior holiness and with the ugly censoriousness which is a usual accompaniment of that grace, demonstrated her genius for mixing a theological controversy with personal jealousies and public anxieties, and involved the whole colony of the Bay in an acrimonious quarrel, such as to give an unpleasant tone of partisanship and ill temper to the proceedings ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

... exhilarating in the wealth of sunshine that filled all space without the accompaniment of corresponding heat. The spring moisture was gone from the air, and the warm haze of summer had not yet come. There was only light—light over the green fields and the sea beyond, light that drew the landscape in clear lines against the blue atmosphere, and breathed a ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... cream, and other carbonaceous articles of diet are recommended. In the various forms of chronic ailments, the diet must be varied according to the nature of the disease and the peculiarities of the patient. Deranged digestion is generally an accompaniment of chronic disease. A return to normal digestion should be encouraged by selecting appropriate articles of food, paying due regard to its quantity and quality, as well as to the manner and time of eating. The appearance of food, and the manner in which it ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... expected to conduct himself as if he knew of no such preparation, to act as if desirous to press the female guests to refreshments, and to seem surprised at their obstinate refusal. But the instant his back was turned the ken-no was produced; and after all had eaten their fill, with a proper accompaniment of the groaning malt, the remainder was divided among the gossips, each carrying a large portion home with the same affectation of ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott


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