Definition of "corespondent" []

• Law A person charged with having committed adultery with the defendant in a divorce suit. (noun)

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• "Don't you think 'corespondent' rather a good generic term for 'man of letters,' from the point of view of the country-town newspaper reader? ..."
• "Her family were not overjoyed when she decided to become a foreign corespondent."
• "The Vienna corespondent of The Times says perquisitions and arrests continue in the villayet of Adrianopole."