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Correlative

noun
1.
Either of two or more related or complementary variables.  Synonym: correlate.
adjective
1.
Mutually related.  Synonyms: correlate, correlated.
2.
Expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation.






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"Correlative" Quotes from Famous Books



... likewise remarked, "I think slavery as much a correlative of liberty as cold is of heat. History, experience, observation and reason, have taught me that the torch of liberty has ever burned brighter when surrounded by the dark and filthy, yet nutritious ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child

... either through the neglect or harshness of its legislation? Or, waiving this, is it not indisputable that the claim of the State to the allegiance, involves the protection of the subject? And, as all rights in one party impose a correlative duty upon another, it follows that the right of the State to require the services of its members, even to the jeopardizing of their lives in the common defence, establishes a right in the people (not to be gainsaid by utilitarians and economists) to public support when, from any cause, they may ...
— A Joy For Ever - (And Its Price in the Market) • John Ruskin

... noticed that we find the real meaning of those words about a man's duty of portioning out readily to another's use what belongs to himself. It is the correlative to the ...
— Mediaeval Socialism • Bede Jarrett

... the third place, the result of this clinging to externals is to shut out Science and all its correlative branches of knowledge from their proper office of making perpetually clearer the true and full meaning of the Revelation itself. It is intended that Religion should use the aid of Science in clearing her own conceptions. ...
— The Relations Between Religion and Science - Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 • Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter

... sum up the new movement so clearly that the dullest will apprehend. Surely the inhibition of all apperceptions in art is correlative to the inner ego? That simple postulate granted, it will be unquestioned that the true focus of vision should co-ordinate the invisible. Faith we must have, or we faint by the roadside of the intelligible. The only altruism is that which can ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 • Various


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