Citations:response

English citations of response

• 1338, Robert Mannyng, Middle English Chronicle

  What was his respons written, I ne sauh no herd.

• 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Two Voices

  Then did my response clearer fall:
  "No compound of this earthly ball
  Is like another, all in all."

• 1874, James Sully, Sensation and Intuition, p. 17.

  There seems a vast psychological interval between an emotional response to the action of some grateful stimulus and the highly complex intellectual and emotional development implied in a distinct appreciation of objective beauty.

Middle French citations of response

• 1602, Michel de Montaigne, Les Essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne, Abel L'Angelier, Paris, p. 811

  Il fit reſponſe, que le peuple Romain auoit accouſtumé de ſe venger de ſes ennemis par voye ouuerte, les armes en main, nô par fraude & en cachette