Corespondent

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "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."

  2. 2
    the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding wordnet

Etymology

From co- + respondent.

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