corresponsive
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of corresponsive
1600–10; < Medieval Latin corrēspons ( us ) (past participle of corrēspondēre to correspond, equivalent to corrēspond- verb stem + -tus past participle suffix) + -ive
Example Sentences
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Next they start on other charges and other retreats in corresponsive spaces, and interlink circle with circle, and wage the armed phantom of battle.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Conjunctions are divided into two general classes, copulative and disjunctive; and a few of each class are particularly distinguished from the rest, as being corresponsive.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Lo ye, a second sign—these footsteps, look,— Like to my own, a corresponsive print; And look, another footmark,—this his own, And that the foot of one who walked with him.
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
Priam’s six-gated city, Dardan, and Timbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, And Antenorides, with massy staples And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts Spar up the sons of Troy.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
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