corresponsive

[ kawr-uh-spon-siv, kor- ]

adjective

1. responsive to effort or impulse; answering.

Other Words From

• corre·sponsive·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of corresponsive¹

1600–10; < Medieval Latin corrēspons ( us ) (past participle of corrēspondēre to correspond, equivalent to corrēspond- verb stem + -tus past participle suffix) + -ive

Example Sentences

And while its concrete regulations are far too manifold for any general document to possibly contain, its dictates are all as concrete and corresponsive to our human civic life as is the heaven-born and reverent human friendliness with which the life of Lincoln was continually graced.

From Project Gutenberg

Priam’s six-gated city, Dardan, and Timbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, And Antenorides, with massy staples And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts Spar up the sons of Troy.

From Project Gutenberg

Not that the full Pindaric form of threefold or triune structure need be or should be always adopted: but without an accurately corresponsive or antiphonal scheme of music even the master of masters, who is Coleridge, could not produce, even through the superb and enchanting melodies of such a poem as his 'Dejection,' a fit and complete companion, a full and perfect rival, to such a poem as his ode on France.

From Project Gutenberg

But in my later ode on Athens, absolutely faithful as it is in form to the strictest type and the most stringent law of Pindaric hymnology, I venture to believe that there is no more sign of this infirmity than in the less classically regulated poem on the Armada; which, though built on a new scheme, is nevertheless in its way, I think, a legitimate ode, by right of its regularity in general arrangement of corresponsive divisions.

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And, at the first movement of corresponsive faith, they had been acquitted of all their old sins and planted all at once upon a new basis in Christ Jesus.

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