correspondency

American  

[kawr-uh-spon-duhn-see, kor-] / ˌkɔr əˈspɒn dən si, ˌkɒr- /

noun

• correspondencies
  plural

1. correspondence.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• correspondencies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of correspondency

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

correspondency correspondencies

We notice a striking correspondency with this vision of Ezekiel.

From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein

I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency.

From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Between the first and last chapters there is a correspondency, and each of them may be considered as a summary of the whole treatise.

From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by James Legge

Next, you tell us of your goodly harmony in London; or of the 'amicable christian correspondency betwixt those of divers persuasions there, until my turbulent and mutineering spirit got up.'

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

A comparison with Revelation xviii will bring out the striking correspondency.

From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein

We judged right, that Hannah carried on your correspondencies.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

A secretary was employed, but not so much to do the actual writing as the copying and filing, and at this time Washington complained "that my numerous correspondencies are daily becoming irksome to me."

From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Paul Leicester Ford

It assumed the strange outline of a gigantic human body, all its intricacies becoming orderly correspondencies of the human organism in its multitudinous ramifications.

From Within the Temple of Isis by Belle M. Wagner

There were attempts to pair her off as a twin sister of various correspondencies in age, size, and color, and to palm her off, as a substitute, at migratory, bereaved, overfull breasts.

From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King

First, the virtues taught in the family have their correspondencies in the wider sphere.

From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by James Legge