Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Respondence \Re*spond"ence\ (-?ns), Respondency \Re*spond"en*cy\
   (-en*s?), n.
   The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an
   answering. --A. Chalmers.

         The angelical soft trembling voice made To the
         instruments divine respondence meet.     --Spenser.