Correspondence
[kɒrɪ'spɒnd(ə)ns] or [,kɔrə'spɑndəns]
Definition
(n.) Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
(n.) The letters which pass between correspondents.
(n.) Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
Typist: Sharif
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Coincidence, concurrence, congruity, fitting relation, reciprocal adaptation.[2]. Intercourse or communication by letters.[3]. Letters.
Typed by Clyde
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fitness, agreement, adaptation, congruity, answerableness, match, congeniality,communication, letter, writing, despatches
ANT:Conversation, colloquy, confabulation, reservation, withdrawal, withholding,nonintercourse, difference, repugnance
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- I handed it back to Mr. Murthwaite, and owned that this curious specimen of Hindoo correspondence rather puzzled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You air in correspondence with Mr. Pip? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At this juncture a large part of the correspondence referred very naturally to electric lighting, embodying requests for all kinds of information, catalogues, prices, terms, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Oldenburg from Bremen acted as secretary (along with Wilkins) and carried on an extensive foreign correspondence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He's a lawyer, and they were in pretty constant correspondence with him; and I remember Mr. Hale told me he thought he would come down. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- That this correspondence with the public enemy was not a correspondence of to-day, or of yesterday, or even of last year, or of the year before. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Every possibility of good was before me, and the first of blessings secured, in obtaining her promises of faith and correspondence. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It is used in a similar manner in nearly all the large stores, and by many individuals in their business correspondence. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It involves me in correspondence with public bodies and with private individuals anxious for the welfare of their species all over the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Perhaps he is in correspondence with his government? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I have a large correspondence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The spinster caused Briggs to write back to the Colonel a gracious and complimentary letter, encouraging him to continue his correspondence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To-day such a crowd of working-men would be sure to include at least one student of a night school or correspondence course who would explain the mystery offhand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- What with the books and correspondence, and foreign journeys for which a Principal is necessary, I can't do all. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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