Corespondent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Law A person charged with having committed adultery with the defendant in a divorce suit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One of two or more persons against whom a lawsuit is made; but especially a person charged with commiting adultery with the defendant in a divorce proceeding.
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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? ..."
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