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/rɪspˈɑnd/ /rispˈɑnd/ Listen

verb

Respond v. t.

1.

To answer; to reply.

2.

To suit or accord with; to correspond to. (R.) "For his great deeds respond his speeches great."

Respond v. i. (past & past part. responded; pres. part. responding)

1.

To say something in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

2.

To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. "A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe." "To every theme responds thy various lay."

3.

To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. (U.S.)

Synonyms: To answer; reply; rejoin. See Reply.

noun

Respond n.

1.

An answer; a response. (R.)

2.

(Eccl.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.

3.

(Arch.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.

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"Respond" Quotes from Famous Books

... possibly obtain credit at the journey's end for the same number of pounds of flesh which he possessed at its beginning. For this reason the tribute was commuted into a money payment, one which no journeyings can diminish and no toil can wound. The Provinces should understand and respond to this favourable change, and not show themselves more slack than their ancestors were, under far more burdensome conditions. Your Diligence has now collected both these taxes[794] at the appointed periods; and I am glad of it, that my countrymen, ...

— The Letters of Cassiodorus - Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of - Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator • Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

... child-likeness of the subjects of the kingdom. No doubt there was a dash of superstition in the impulse that moved the parents to bring their children to Jesus, but it was an eminently natural desire to win a good man's blessing, and one to which every parent's heart will respond. It was not the superstition, but the intrusive familiarity, that provoked the disciples' rebuke. A great man's hangers-on are always more careful of his dignity than he is, for it increases ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... learning caution by experience, scarce knew how to respond to this appeal; but the girl met their inquiring glances by a vivid smile, ...

— The Lord of Dynevor • Evelyn Everett-Green

... that was not enough, though many women, it would seem, are satisfied with it. Some there are who weep tears over the imaginary sorrows of a heroine in the last sensational novel, who would not move away from their own firesides to respond to the cry of real misery. No good comes of such pity, and such compassion is a dishonour to the name. It is not enough to feel for sorrow with the heart, the hands must be stretched out in prompt readiness to help. It was so in the case ...

— Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands • Eva Hope

... tails like strings, kept near at hand, and seemed ready to commit any crime for the smallest particle of goose. String-tailed, goggle-eyed, meagre cats that seize your dinner if you do not keep watch over it, and when caressed promptly respond by scratching and swearing, appear to be held in high favour throughout this district. They are expected to live upon rats, and it is this that makes them so disagreeable, for although they kill rats for the pleasure of the chase, they do not like the flavour of them. On this subject ...

— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker

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