respondence
English
Etymology
Partly from Middle French respondance, partly from respond + -ence.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈspɒndəns/
- Hyphenation: res‧pon‧dence
Noun
respondence (plural respondences)
- (obsolete) Response, answer.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
- Th'Angelicall soft trembling voyces made / To th'instruments diuine respondence meet […]
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- (now rare) Correspondence, agreement.