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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Correspondent \Cor`re*spond"ent\ (-ent), a. [Cf. F.
     correspondant.]
     Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous;
     conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.
  
           Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
                                                    --Hooker.
  
           As fast the correspondent passions rise. --Thomson.
  
           I will be correspondent to command.      --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Correspondent \Cor`re*spond"ent\, n.
     1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
        --Macaulay.
  
     2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or
        telegram to a newspaper or periodical.
  
     3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter
        or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  correspondent
       adj : similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise
             dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered
             analogous"; "surimi is marketed as analogous to
             crabmeat" [syn: {analogous}]
       n 1: someone who communicates by means of letters [syn: {letter
            writer}]
       2: a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers
          or broadcast media [syn: {newspaperman}, {newspaperwoman},
           {newswriter}, {pressman}]

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