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c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 825 In a chambre faste iloke alle hi were ibrouȝt, That hi ne scholde ascapie noȝt er hi respounse [a1325 Corpus Cambr. responce; c1300 Laud answere] sede.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 169 Respons þei gaf him þere, ‘þei were men of mistere’.

c1475 ( in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) 26 516 (MED) For a more pleinere confutacioun of thame [sc. youre articuls], I shall answere singulerly to every poynte that nedith respons.

1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie iii. vi. 79 Then Samuel was a Witch: For the Deuill resembled his shape, and played his person in giuing response to Saule.

1644 R. Boothby True Declar. Intollerable Wrongs 4 A great indignity to my self in particular, not to make responce thereunto which I performed in my own Apologie or defence.

1698 L. Meriton Pecuniæ obediunt Omnia (new ed.) 22 He'll..make response, that he could not you find.

1762 Notus-Notarius 37 To this harangue our man o' D——se, Was just about to make response.

1848 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 3 150 I did not let the matter pass without response, but after a few observations, related the following anecdote.

1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Aug. 146/1 In response to his interrogations, I recommended this township as an almost anchoretic asylum.

1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 90/3 She found waiting for her on the kitchen table the mail in response to the registered letters she had sent to the United States senators.

2005 Independent 30 May 30/1 Those with high IQ but found to have limited diversity of response to questions such as what one could do with a brick.