Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being respondent; also, the act of responding or answering; response.
  • noun Correspondence; agreement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering.

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  • noun obsolete Response, answer.
  • noun Correspondence, agreement.

Etymologies

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Partly from Middle French respondance, partly from respond +‎ -ence.

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Examples

  • Egypt particularly; corresponding all the time with Dr. Bartlett, and allowing the cor-respondence to pass into the hands of Mr. Beau — champ; as did that which he held with Mr. Beauchamp, to be communicated to the doctor.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • I proceeded therefore — That I loved familiar-letter-writing, as I had more than once told her, above all the species of writing: it was writing from the heart, (without the fetters prescribed by method or study,) as the very word cor-respondence implied.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • He said: "The Coega Development Corporation (Pty) Ltd re - serves the right not to enter into any relationship, and no cor - respondence pertaining to submissions will be entered into."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • ‘Do you read the Company's confidential cor - respondence?’

    Heart of Darkness 1960

  • I have been in co respondence with Guaranty Trust Company of New York, which Company handled the rental and management of this property for the Trustees above-named.

    Board of Visitors minutes 1943

  • Chief of these, I hoped, was Mohun Dampier, an old school mate with whom I had held a desultory correspond - ence which had long ceased, as is the way of cor - respondence between men.

    Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

  • But not noses on two legs, not burly pairs of gaiters, stuffed and voluble, not white meringues of chastity, not incarnations of co - respondence.

    Touch and Go 1907

  • There was the lightning-like co-respondence and mutual reaction between thought and execution, which has been explained by some to be the simultaneous action of two minds in man, the subjective and the objective.

    Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) J. Andr�� [Illustrator] Castaigne 1881

  • The body of the work comprises the Maxims as the author finally left them, the first supple - ment, those published in former editions, and rejected by the author in the later; the second, the unpublished Maxims taken from the author's cor - respondence and manuscripts, and the third, the

    Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Fran��ois duc de La Rochefoucauld 1646

  • We also expect to leverage technology to innovate our business, reach hard to client respondence, as well as create new revenue streams.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

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