correspondence
nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns//
- United Kingdom//ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns//
- United States//ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns//
- United States//ˌkoɹ.əˈspɑn.dəns//
- Canada//ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns//
Mutual communication or discourse: Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
noun
- 1
obsoleteMutual communication or discourse: Friendly discussion.
- 2
Mutual communication or discourse: Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
- 3
Mutual communication or discourse: Newspaper or news stories.
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Mutual communication or discourse: Postal or other written communications.
I'm doing time in Oklahoma and really would appreciate some correspondence.
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Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc
For, if praxis signifes the whole of man's part in history, the value of intellectual production as an aspect of that whole is to be measured by the mind's ability to 'express' changing historical situations, and not by the correspondence between some 'objective' universe and the description of it.
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Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc: An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
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Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc: A relation.
- 8
Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc: A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)
Etymology
From Middle English correspondence, from Latin correspondentia. By surface analysis, correspond + -ence.
Forms
- plural
- correspondences
correspondence · Mutual communication or discourse: Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
correspondent · Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.corridor · A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a…corroborate · To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to…