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

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correspondency correspondencies

The critics declare upon this striking correspondency that "much of the imagery of Revelation is borrowed from Ezekiel."

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

There was so absolute a correspondency between his will and God's will, and between his way and his will, that it was not possible that any difference should fall between them.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Now among them that were yet of a more excellent nature, as the stars and planets, though by their nature far distant one from another, yet even among them began some mutual correspondency and unity.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

Between the letters which bear the name of Saint Paul in our collection and his history in the Acts of the Apostles there exist many notes of correspondency.

From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William

It shows how the Infinite is contained in the Finite, the Absolute in the Relative, not spatially or by continuation, but by exact correspondency, as the soul is contained in the body.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various

So here may something arise to lead into correspondencies, and so forth.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel

There are, moreover, two other correspondencies between Saint John's history of the transaction and theirs, of a kind somewhat different from those which we have been now mentioning.

From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William

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 Wagner, Belle M.

The physical signs of deterioration have their mental correspondencies.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

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 Legge, James