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See also:CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic See also:Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and See also:respond ere, to See also:answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)
, strictly a mutual agreement or fitness of parts or See also:character, that which fits or answers to a requirement in another, or more generally a similarity or parallel-ism
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In the 17th and 18th centuries the word was frequently applied to relations and communications between states
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It is now, outside See also:special applications, chiefly applied to the inter-See also:change of communications by See also:letter, or to the letters themselves, between private individuals, states, business houses, or from individuals to the See also:press
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The " See also:doctrine of See also:correspondence or correspondences," one of the leading tenets of Swedenborgianism, is that every natural See also:object corresponds to and typifies some spiritual principle or truth, this being the only See also: |
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