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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
incorrespondence .
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- noun Obsolete form of
incorrespondence .
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Examples
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Yet those who thus designate this wise and amiable writer, from the frequent incorrespondency of his diction with his metre, in the majority of his compositions, not only deem them valuable and interesting on other accounts, but willingly admit that there are to be found throughout his poems, and especially in his
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Yet those, who thus designate this wise and amiable writer from the frequent incorrespondency of his diction to his metre in the majority of his compositions, not only deem them valuable and interesting on other accounts; but willingly admit, that there are to be found throughout his poems, and especially in his EPISTLES and in his HYMEN'S TRIUMPH, many and exquisite specimens of that style which, as the neutral ground of prose and verse, is common to both.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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