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, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Th'Angelicall soft trembling voyces made / To th'instruments diuine respondence meet […]
- (now rare) Correspondence, agreement.