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

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Etymology

Origin of correspondency

First recorded in 1580–90

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Example Sentences

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correspondency correspondencies

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

And really there seems to have been a sort of fitness in this method, a correspondency of sign in the punishment to the offence.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

There is a memorable correspondency throughout all members of Protestant Christendom in whatsoever relates to literature and intellectual advance.

From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey

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

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 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

We judged right, that Hannah carried on your correspondencies.

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

Therefore, let each one explore this tangled labyrinth of Astro-Theology for him or herself, and work out the various correspondencies at leisure.

From The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 by Thomas H. Burgoyne

At the basis of music there are certain fixed ratios; and in poetry, of every description, there are measures, and correspondencies.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

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