respondence
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of respondence
From obsolete French, dating back to 1580–90; respond, -ence
Example Sentences
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Last week some of the cor respondence which occurred during the transaction was made known.
From Time Magazine Archive
Attorney General Sir William Allen Jowitt had cor respondence to show that the air minister was chafing to start by late September, be back by Oct.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Spenser says,— "The angelical, soft, trembling voices made Unto the instruments respondence meet."
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
"Is dat all de respondence my Delijah got faw her Saampson?"
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
The joyous birdes shrouded in chearefull shade Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet: The angelical soft trembling voices made To th’ instruments divine respondence meet.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob
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