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1582 Ld. Burghley Let. Sept. in Politics & Admin. in Tudor Eng. (1976) I. cii. cviii. f. 205 As for my respondency to plesure particular sutors I thynk sometyme I am not so forward to plesure mens appetites as is requird.

1820 Q. Rev. Jan. 495 All the thousand proprieties that depend on an intuitive respondency to the fluctuating emotions of a great and agitated assembly.

1888 Med. Bull. Aug. 243/1 The pupils may be either dilated or contracted in the last stage. In either case their respondency to light is lost.

1902 Rep. 32nd Ann. Meeting Vermont Dairymen's Assoc. 189 In them is a natural respondency to truth and beauty.

2000 I. Inkster in I. Inkster & F. Satofuka Culture & Technol. Mod. Japan i. 12 Principal characteristics of such network systems are their high degree of ‘respondency’ or speed of change in response to changed external environs, combined with their relative stability.

1603 S. Daniel Panegyrike lxvi To stand Against all th' interplaced respondencies Of combinations.

1618 T. Adams Happines of Church ii. 76 Thus you see the respondencie of the spirituall to the naturall Foole, in their qualities.

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xi. 266 Every Concretion requires to its dissolution some peculiar dissolvent, that holds some respondency or analogy to its contexture.

1742 C. Fleming Plea for Infants 49 This was his indispensible duty, altho' it was not sufficient to recommend him to God without a respondency of moral, virtuous temper and conduct.

1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 111 We begin to observe the respondency of this to the former parts of the prophecy.

1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell iv. i. sig. G2^v Aduance thy respondency.

1842 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 25 99 I also tried to discover what her first impressions were on seeing the human face;..her respondencies were so confused and ambiguous, that I am convinced she had formed no idea.

1895 L. Merrick Man who was Good ix. 160 She forced herself to turn to him with a few remarks, made the more difficult by..the evident effort of respondency in him.

1997 W. B. Piper Common Courtesy in 18th-cent. Eng. Lit. ii. 44 In Three Dialogues,..Berkeley has created two rings of public attention and public respondency.

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iii. 119 Which fine new-fangled way of Respondency to an opponent urging otherwise an irresistible Truth, I should never have learnt, had I not met with these two Sophistical Shufflers.

1814 G. Dyer Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. iii. iii. 248 Masters of arts read lectures, from which questions were formed, and afterwards discussed,..by respondencies and opponencies in the philosophical school.

1895 H. Rashdall Universities of Europe in Middle Ages II. ii. xii. 452 A probably fourteenth-century Statute..requires the fifth year for ‘Opponency’ and the seventh for Respondency.

1978 Huntingdon Libr. Q. 41 252 Swift would have been required to preach twice in Latin, twice in English, and to perform two Respondencies and two Opponencies.