All 23 Uses of
correspond
in
War and Peace
- Half an hour later, the Rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon's temple, which every Freemason should cultivate in himself.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- "Devil take them!" he muttered, and after listening to the verbal instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his father's letter, he returned to the nursery.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2) *
- Bilibin wrote that the obligation of diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince Andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- On that first evening Bolkonski spent with him, having mentioned the Commission for the Revision of the Code of Laws, Speranski told him sarcastically that the Commission had existed for a hundred and fifty years, had cost millions, and had done nothing except that Rosenkampf had stuck labels on the corresponding paragraphs of the different codes.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- Our Freemasons knew from correspondence with those abroad that Bezukhov had obtained the confidence of many highly placed persons, had been initiated into many mysteries, had been raised to a higher grade, and was bringing back with him much that might conduce to the advantage of the Masonic cause in Russia.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Julie, with whom she had corresponded for the last five years, was in Moscow, but proved to be quite alien to her when they met.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- This secret correspondence….†
Chpt 8 (definition 3) *
- She did not realize the significance of this war, though Dessalles with whom she constantly conversed was passionately interested in its progress and tried to explain his own conception of it to her, and though the "God's folk" who came to see her reported, in their own way, the rumors current among the people of an invasion by Antichrist, and though Julie (now Princess Drubetskaya), who had resumed correspondence with her, wrote patriotic letters from Moscow.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- Pierre's physical condition, as is always the case, corresponded to his mental state.†
Chpt 11 (definition 1)
- "That, my dear, you must ask the doctor," he replied, and again making an evident effort to be affectionate, he said with his lips only (his words clearly did not correspond to his thoughts): "Merci, chere amie, d'etre venue."†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- In consequence of this battle Kutuzov received a diamond decoration, and Bennigsen some diamonds and a hundred thousand rubles, others also received pleasant recognitions corresponding to their various grades, and following the battle fresh changes were made in the staff.†
Chpt 13 (definition 1)
- Since Bennigsen, who corresponded with the Emperor and had more influence than anyone else on the staff, had begun to avoid him, Kutuzov was more at ease as to the possibility of himself and his troops being obliged to take part in useless aggressive movements.†
Chpt 13 (definition 1)
- To such customary routine belonged his conversations with the staff, the letters he wrote from Tarutino to Madame de Stael, the reading of novels, the distribution of awards, his correspondence with Petersburg, and so on.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- The chief cause of the wastage of Napoleon's army was the rapidity of its movement, and a convincing proof of this is the corresponding decrease of the Russian army.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- Is the movement of the Russian people eastward to Kazan and Siberia expressed by details of the morbid character of Ivan the Terrible and by his correspondence with Kurbski?†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- Today he ordered such and such papers to be written to Vienna, to Berlin, and to Petersburg; tomorrow such and such decrees and orders to the army, the fleet, the commissariat, and so on and so on—millions of commands, which formed a whole series corresponding to a series of events which brought the French armies into Russia.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- …his reign Napoleon gave commands concerning an invasion of England and expended on no other undertaking so much time and effort, and yet during his whole reign never once attempted to execute that design but undertook an expedition into Russia, with which country he considered it desirable to be in alliance (a conviction he repeatedly expressed)—this came about because his commands did not correspond to the course of events in the first case, but did so correspond in the latter.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- …his reign Napoleon gave commands concerning an invasion of England and expended on no other undertaking so much time and effort, and yet during his whole reign never once attempted to execute that design but undertook an expedition into Russia, with which country he considered it desirable to be in alliance (a conviction he repeatedly expressed)—this came about because his commands did not correspond to the course of events in the first case, but did so correspond in the latter.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- Only the possible ones get linked up with a consecutive series of commands corresponding to a series of events, and are executed.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- Apart from that, the chief source of our error in this matter is due to the fact that in the historical accounts a whole series of innumerable, diverse, and petty events, such for instance as all those which led the French armies to Russia, is generalized into one event in accord with the result produced by that series of events, and corresponding with this generalization the whole series of commands is also generalized into a single expression of will.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- Having restored the condition of time under which all events occur, we find that a command is executed only when it is related to a corresponding series of events.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- And corresponding to the event its justification appears in people's belief that this was necessary for the welfare of France, for liberty, and for equality.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- In all these cases the conception of freedom is increased or diminished and the conception of compulsion is correspondingly decreased or increased, according to the point of view from which the action is regarded.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1) *
Definitions:
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(1) (correspond as in: corresponding time period) connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)
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(2) (correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emaileditor's notes: A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
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(3) (correspondence as in: a correspondence course) done from afareditor's notes: For example, a corresponding member or a correspondence course.
This sense of corresponding arose because people who lived in distant cities and could not be present for meetings, could communicate by sending written communications.