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The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
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- She could imagine braver things than spending the winter in Paris—Paris had sides by which it so resembled New York, Paris was like smart, neat prose—and her close correspondence with Madame Merle did much to stimulate such flights.†
Chpt 31 *correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
- The convent is a great institution; we can't do without it; it corresponds to an essential need in families, in society.†
Chpt 50 *corresponds = connects or fits together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
- This journal offered its brilliant correspondent a fresher field for her genius than the mouldering cities of Europe, and Henrietta was cheered on her way by a promise from Mr. Bantling that he would soon come over to see her.†
Chpt 31
- The Countess could not but feel that the correspondent of the Interviewer was much more in the movement than the American Corinne.†
Chpt 44
- "Yet you're not a lady correspondent," said Henrietta pensively.†
Chpt 44
- Lady correspondents appeared to him a part of the natural scheme of things in a progressive country, and though he never read their letters he supposed that they ministered somehow to social prosperity.†
Chpt 44 *
- I had an idea that you were at one time in intimate correspondence.†
Chpt 46
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.) -
(2)
(correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emailA 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 afarFor 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. -
(4)
(correspondent as in: foreign correspondent of the paper) a reporter or other representative -- typically from a foreign country or with a particular expertise
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)