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correspondence

Noun

Meaning

Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.

The letters which pass between correspondents.

Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There are no coincidences in life. All things are providential. They are allowed for our salvation, in correspondence with our inner state and needs. Seraphim Rose

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. Oscar Wilde

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. Evelyn Waugh

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored that's the time for sex. H. G. Wells

I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage. George Mason

Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection. Hans Reichenbach

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