correspondency
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English
Etymology
From Latin correspondentia.[1] By surface analysis, correspond + -ency.
Noun
correspondency (countable and uncountable, plural correspondencies)
- (obsolete) Synonym of correspondence
- 1705, Samuel Clarke, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God:
- The correspondencies of types and antitypes […] may be very reasonable confirmations.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter IX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: S Richardson; , →OCLC:
- I should abhor these clandestine correspondencies, were they not forced upon me.
References
- ^ “correspondency, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
