accord vs allow

accord

verb
  • To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. 

  • To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant. 

  • To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. 

  • To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. 

  • To agree in pitch and tone. 

noun
  • Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. 

  • Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action. 

  • A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof. 

  • An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. 

  • An international agreement. 

  • Agreement or harmony of things in general. 

  • A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. 

allow

verb
  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

How often have the words accord and allow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )