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Corespondent
noun
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Noun
- 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 the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding wordnet
Etymology
From co- + respondent.
See also for "corespondent"
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