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respondency

respondency is the alternative form of respondence.

Meaning of respondence

Noun

respondence (plural respondences)

  1. (obsolete) Response, answer.
    • Th'Angelicall soft trembling voyces made / To th'instruments diuine respondence meet […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (archaic) Correspondence, agreement.

Questions about respondency

What is respondency the alternative form of?
Respondency is the alternative form of respondence.

Words near respondency in the dictionary

  1. responded
  2. respondee
  3. respondees
  4. respondence
  5. respondences
  6. respondency
  7. respondent
  8. respondentia
  9. respondentias
  10. respondents
  11. responder

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