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单词 respondence
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respondencen.

Brit. /rᵻˈspɒnd(ə)ns/, U.S. /rəˈspɑnd(ə)ns/, /riˈspɑnd(ə)ns/
Forms: 1500s– respondence, 1600s respondance.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item, and partly modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: respond v., -ence suffix; respondent adj.
Etymology: Probably partly < respond v. + -ence suffix and partly < respondent adj. (see -ence suffix), partly after Middle French respondance, respondence response (13th cent. in Old French), guarantee, surety (15th cent.), fact of corresponding, correspondence (15th cent.) and post-classical Latin respondentia correspondence (13th cent. in a British source). Compare also Spanish respondencia (mid 16th cent.), Portuguese respondência (a1575), Italian rispondenza (a1600). Compare earlier response n. and respondency n., and also later respondentia n.With the form respondance compare -ance suffix.
Now rare.
1. Perhaps: responsibility, liability. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > [noun] > fact of being responsible, answerable, or liable
accounta1393
respondence1586
accountableness1625
accountability1750
answerability1769
amenability1789
liability1794
answerableness1813
accountment1857
1586 Ld. Burghley Let. 21 July in Earl of Leicester Corr. (1844) 358 The states commissaries haue not been made privie to our musters and paiements, whearebie the issue will be, respondence for repaiment to bee made hereafter to hir majesty.
2.
a. Answer, response; an instance of this. Obsolete.writ of intendence and respondence: see intendence n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun]
swarec1175
responsec1300
answeringc1330
respoun?a1400
replicationc1405
resolutiona1500
replyal1548
replying1548
reply1577
respondence1590
interlocution1597
reanswer1599
responsure1600
answerage1642
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa8v Th'Angelicall soft trembling voyces made To th'instruments diuine respondence meet.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. v. 196 With sweet respondence in harmonious kinde Their humble song the..aire doth beat.
1606 W. Cowper Conduit of Comfort sig. E4v We must therefore consider, if there be in the heart a respondence and answering vnto the Lord.
1799 T. J. Mathias Shade of Pope 23 Blasts from Avernus, in respondence meet, Hoarse through the leafless branches howl around, And birds of night return the obscener sound.
1817 C. Cuthbertson Rosabella I. x. 222 Nor could the polite attentions of Mr. Egremont himself fail of drawing forth the respondence of urbanity, which led her, although unwilling, to ask him to be seated.
b. Medicine and Psychology. Response to a situation or sensory stimulus. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > [noun] > emotional reaction to stimulus
respondence1846
response1887
reaction1899
1846 Lancet 2 May 511/2 The peculiar structure of its nervous apparatus, which causes a certain movement to be executed in respondence to a given impression.
1867 H. Maudsley Physiol. & Pathol. of Mind 92 The act is consensual, or..instinctive, in respondence to a visual sensation or picture.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. iv. 112 Every state of ideational consciousness which is either very strong or habitually repeated leaves an organic impression on the cerebrum; in virtue of which that same state may be reproduced at any future time, in respondence to a suggestion fitted to excite it.
1903 Med. Dial Mar. 55/1 The pupils were contracted, and gave no respondence to light.
3. Correspondence; agreement, concord.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]
accordmentc1330
accorda1398
consonancya1398
unitya1398
accordancea1400
commoningc1400
convenience1413
correspondence1413
answeringc1425
conformityc1430
consonance1430
congruity1447
concordancec1450
consonantc1475
agreement1495
monochordc1500
conveniencya1513
agreeance1525
agreeableness1531
concinnity1531
congruence1533
harmony?1533
concent1563
tunableness1569
agreeing1575
answerableness1577
concert1578
consent1578
sympathy1578
concord1579
symphonia1579
correspondency1589
atone1595
coherence1597
respondence1598
symphony1598
sortance1600
coherency1603
respondency1603
symbolizing1605
coaptation1614
compositiona1616
sympathizing1632
comportance1648
compliance1649
syntax1649
concinneness1655
symmetry1655
homology1656
consistency1659
consentaneousness1660
consistence1670
comportment1675
harmoniousness1679
symbolism1722
congruousness1727
accordancy1790
sameness1790
consentaneity1798
consilience1840
chime1847
consensus1854
solidarity1874
synchromesh1966
concordancing1976
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. i. 56 His Rent in faire respondence must arise.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 20–21) 364 In fit respondence to the worke of our redemption.
1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. vii. 80 The suitableness or respondence betwixt the several parts of the stock and Cyon.
1794 A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 381 With such a guest, the respondence of intellect..must have added zest to the delight of gazing on scenery so lovely.
1835 B. Dockray On Mutual Tolerance 32 By the respondence between them, we come to know, that this experimental revelation of Himself, and that other.., are, both of them, divine.
1863 J. M. Neale Ess. Liturgiol. v. 125 The five great epochs of the Church..bear no mutual respondence.
1999 L. Y. S. Fong & D. K. Chung in D. S. Sandhu Asian & Pacific Islander Amer. 203 Any search for change should consider..the respondence of Yin and Yang forces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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