Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Jointly responsive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Responsive to effort or impulse; answering; corresponding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Corresponding; conformable; adapted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
corresponding ; equivalent or similar incharacter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the "within itself oscillating realm" which holds man and being together in holding them apart, Ereignis "needs" man's corresponsive thinking.
enowning enowning 2007
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As the "within itself oscillating realm" which holds man and being together in holding them apart, Ereignis "needs" man's corresponsive thinking.
Archive 2007-11-01 enowning 2007
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Next they start on other charges and other retreats in corresponsive spaces, and interlink circle with circle, and wage the armed phantom of battle.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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A _gentleman_ is chivalrous; and there is a corresponsive quality in a _lady_, which makes her delicately sensitive about unjustly imposing on that chivalry, or which, in emergencies of sickness or disaster, enables
Etiquette Agnes H. Morton
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Night's Dream_ nor the corresponsive passage in _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ could have been written by any hand known to us but Shakespeare's; whereas the passage in _King Edward III_. might as certainly have been written by any one out of a dozen poets then living as the answering passage in _Measure for Measure_ could assuredly have been written by
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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They now stood alongside of one another, and the action of the two promised to be joint and corresponsive.
The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. First Series 1845
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I can fancy a good man advancing through all the mortal stages from seventeen to seventy-five, and crowned by the sympathies of corresponsive affections, simply going on from youth to youth, ending at last in youth's perfect immortality!
Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story William Gilmore Simms 1838
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Present by the Past, he at the same time weds the Past in the Present to some prepared and corresponsive Future.
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The lowest seat height is that of the Classic and its corresponsive LT model (only 28.3 inches from the ground), but this also implies a ground clearance of only 5.1 inches, so expect a lot of scraping the tarmac with the footrests when approaching corners a little bit too fast and being needed to lean more than the usual.
Top Speed Maxx Biker 2010
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The lowest seat height is that of the Classic and its corresponsive LT model (only 28.3 inches from the ground), but this also implies a ground clearance of only 5.1 inches, so expect a lot of scraping the tarmac with the footrests when approaching corners a little bit too fast and being needed to lean more than the usual.
Top Speed Maxx Biker 2010
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