Literary notes about corresponding (AI summary)
The word "corresponding" is often used to draw a direct parallel or to indicate equivalence between two elements in literature. It serves as a linguistic bridge, linking concepts, spatial or temporal points, roles, or even symbolic representations in different contexts. For instance, it may equate cultural or historical phenomena to their analogous counterparts, as when a market-place is linked to a forum [1] or when moral states are paralleled with phases of human progress [2]. In scientific or philosophical discourse, the term marks comparable processes or properties, such as dual aspects in matter and mind [3]. Thus, "corresponding" functions as a versatile marker of similarity and relationship that deepens the analytical and interpretative layers of a text [4][5][6].
- Ag′ora, the market-place of a Greek town, corresponding to the Roman forum .
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - For as there are three times, before death, in death, after death, so there are three states corresponding, living, dying, dead.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - Corresponding to the supposed duality of matter and mind, there are, in orthodox psychology, two ways of knowing what exists.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - The Upparas are described by Mr. H. A. Stuart 7 as “a caste of tank-diggers and earth-workers, corresponding to the Uppiliyans of the Tamil districts.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston - In the Vladimir Government he is said “to destroy devils with stone arrows,”—weapons corresponding to the hammer of Thor and the lance of Indra.
— from Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore - Thus these adverbs in -ë became identical in form with the corresponding adjectives.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge
