corespondent

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

co- + respondent

Noun

corespondent (plural corespondents)

  1. (law) One of two or more persons against whom a lawsuit is made; but especially a person charged with committing adultery with the defendant in a divorce proceeding.
    • 1913 June 7, Rupert Hughes, “Memling Must Have an Alibi”, in The Popular Magazine, volume 28, number 6, page 160:
      It was simply a certified copy of the decree in the divorce case of a prominent society woman, Mrs. Percy Schermerman, who had named as corespondent a still more prominent woman, Mrs. Willoughby Worthington. The evidence had been sealed, and the yellower papers had toiled in vain to find out just who the prominent corespondent was.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French correspondant.

Noun

corespondent m (plural corespondenți)

  1. correspondent

Declension

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