corespondent
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From co- + respondent.
Noun
corespondent (plural corespondents)
- (law) One of two or more persons against whom a lawsuit is made; but especially a person charged with committing adultery with the defendant in a divorce proceeding.
- 1913 June 7, Rupert Hughes, “Memling Must Have an Alibi”, in The Popular Magazine, volume 28, number 6, page 160:
- It was simply a certified copy of the decree in the divorce case of a prominent society woman, Mrs. Percy Schermerman, who had named as corespondent a still more prominent woman, Mrs. Willoughby Worthington. The evidence had been sealed, and the yellower papers had toiled in vain to find out just who the prominent corespondent was.
See also
Further reading
co-respondent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French correspondant.
Noun
corespondent m (plural corespondenți)
Declension
Declension of corespondent
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) corespondent | corespondentul | (niște) corespondenti | corespondentii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) corespondent | corespondentului | (unor) corespondenti | corespondentilor |
| vocative | corespondentule | corespondentilor | ||