correspondence

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They said that if he woke up presently and fell to talking about a correspondence which he had some time held with Mr. Greeley about a trifle of some kind, we must humor him and listen with interest; and we must humor his fancy that this correspondence was the talk of the world It was easy to see that he was a gentle creature and that his madness had nothing vicious in it.

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  1. noun The act, fact, or state of agreeing or conforming.
  2. noun Similarity or analogy.
  3. noun Communication by the exchange of letters.

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  • About this time that lady wrote to him two letters, which as illustrations of the style of her correspondence are here given 20 Stratford Place, 17th June, 1822. —  Life and Remains of John Clare
  • Literary Magazine , p. 229 If such a correspondence will be agreeable to you, be pleased to inform me in two posts, what the conditions are on which you shall expect it. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • This correspondence is a family, and not a state affair; I will make myself responsible for the consequences I immediately took my commander's advice, and began to write; and had those who suspected me thought proper to make the least inquiry into these circumstances, the four witnesses who read what I wrote could have attested my innocence, and rendered it indubitable. —  Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck
  • The rest of the correspondence was as he expected. —  KISSED BY SHADOWS
  • The principal topic discussed in this correspondence was the constitutional power of the President to change the place in which Congress were to reassemble in December—Philadelphia being considered unsafe. —  Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2
 

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  1. = Dutch korrespondentie = German correspondenz = Danish korrespondents, from French correspondence = Spanish Portuguese correspondencia = Italian corrispondenza, from Middle Latin *correspondentia, from corresponden(t-)s, present participle: see correspondent.
 

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