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

And now I ask what kind of christian correspondency you have with them?

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

And when we remember on how delicate a balance of physiological conditions complete correspondency of pollen to ovules depends, we may be prepared to expect that the phenomenon of prepotency is not of uncommon occurrence.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes

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

From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In correspondency with which division of character the writers of that age would also be of two classes; those who were silent about Christianity, and those who were Christians.

From Evidence of Christianity by William Paley

And, therefore, he cannot, will not, dare not be contented until he find his soul and Scripture together, with the things contained therein, to embrace each other, and a sweet correspondency and agreement between them.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

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 William Paley

She was very early happy in the conversation-visits of her learned and worthy Dr. Lewen, and in her correspondencies, not with him only, but with other Divines mentioned in her last Will.

From Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript by Samuel Richardson

Why should not there be religious as well as Political correspondencies?

From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

But seest thou not that I am under a necessity to continue her at Sinclair's and to prohibit all her correspondencies?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

We judged right, that Hannah carried on your correspondencies.

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