respondence

noun — 2 senses

noun

UK /ɹɪˈspɒndəns/

Etymology Partly from Middle French respondance, partly from respond + -ence.

Obsolete Response, answer.

Th'Angelicall soft trembling voyces made / To th'instruments diuine respondence meet […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Archaic Correspondence, agreement.

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