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correspondencies

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  • noun Plural form of correspondency.

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Examples

  • It still obviously has a Hebrew element in its construction, but what happened is that the Pythagoreans had this system outlined, 10 spheres, each with their correspondencies.

    Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic 2009

  • Yet I lay down my pen, and take it up every ten minutes, in order to write with some temper — my mother too, in and out — What need I, (she asks me,) lock myself in, if I am only reading past correspondencies?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Before I conclude this, I will see whether any thing offers from either of my private correspondencies, that will make it proper to add to it; and will take a turn in the wood-yard and garden for that purpose.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And you were only to be searched for your correspondencies, and still closer confined till the day came, in order to deprive you of all means of escaping the snare laid for you! —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • We have always, from the time each could hold a pen, delighted in epistolary correspondencies.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • What need I (she asks me,) lock myself in, ** if I am only reading past correspondencies?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Our topics were various and diffuse: sometimes upon literary articles [she was very attentive upon this]; sometimes upon the public entertainments; sometimes amusing each other with the fruits of the different correspondencies we held with persons abroad, with whom we had contracted friendships; sometimes upon the foibles and perfections of our particular friends; sometimes upon our own present and future hopes; sometimes aiming at humour and raillery upon each other. —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • So here may something arise to lead into correspondencies, and so forth.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Canst thou not form some scheme to come at the copies of these letters, or the substance of them at least, and of that of her other correspondencies?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I gave her a caution, in a raised voice, To take care, wherever she went to live next, if there were any young ladies, how she made parties, and assisted in clandestine correspondencies.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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