ACCORDINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accordingly mean? 

• ACCORDINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb ACCORDINGLY has 2 senses:

1. (sentence connectors) because of the reason given

2. in accordance with

  Familiarity information: ACCORDINGLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCORDINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(sentence connectors) because of the reason given

Synonyms:

accordingly; consequently

Context example:

continued to have severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor

Sense 2

Meaning:

In accordance with

Context example:

she acted accordingly

 Context examples 

He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We arranged the time of our visit, and I wrote accordingly to Mr. Creakle that evening.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His incessant talking and shouting and bellowing of orders had been too much for Wolf Larsen, who had accordingly foisted the nuisance upon his hunters.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So he had looked upon the ten as good as sold, and he had lived accordingly, on a basis of fifty dollars in the bank.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“There are limits, you see, to our friend’s intelligence. It would have been a coup-de-maître had he deduced what I would deduce and acted accordingly.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the igloo was built accordingly, on a generous scale which exceeded even the dwelling of Klosh-Kwan.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She found him guilty before the act, and treated him accordingly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And accordingly she did turn, and they walked towards the Parsonage together.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They came accordingly, and I placed them in chairs of state, upon my table, just over against me, with their guards about them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We accordingly rested on a seat until they should return.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)