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reˈspondency
[See prec. and -ency.]
Correspondence, congruence.
1603Daniel Panegyric to King lxvi, To stand Against all th' interplaced respondencies Of combinations. 1629T. Adams Fool & his Sport Wks. 774 Thus you see the respondencie of the spirituall to the naturall Foole, in their qualities.
1826E. Irving Babylon vi. II. 111 We begin to observe the respondency of this to the former parts of the prophecy. 1833Chalmers Const. Man (1834) II. ix. 91 He whose hand did frame our internal mechanism, has attuned it in the most correct and delicate respondency. |