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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
correlative
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the corridor, the objective correlative of pre-bedroom intimacy, the moment arrives.
▪ It said nothing whatsoever of any correlative power of the episcopate.
▪ Its correlative, a sliding scale of hours to meet unemployment, is now becoming timely.
▪ Might art be Socratism's necessary correlative?
▪ One view sees the development of fairness as a correlative of the expansion of procedural rights post Ridge v. Baldwin.
▪ The most important point of departure, however, is that rights, whether moral or legal, can involve correlative duties.
▪ Those are examples of attempts to establish parameters through correlative function.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Correlative

Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.
    --Locke.

    Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives.
    --Spelman.

  2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.

Correlative

Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\ (k?r-r?l"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. corr['e]latif.] Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.

Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms.
--Hume.

Wiktionary
correlative

a. mutually related; corresponding n. 1 Either of two correlative things. 2 (context grammar English) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbal form, in Esperanto regularly formed, indicating 'which?', 'that', 'some', 'none', and 'every', as applied to people, things, type, place, manner, reason, time, or quantity, as: ''kiu'' ‘who’ (which person?), ''iu'' ‘someone’ (some person), ''tie'' ‘there’ (that place), ''ĉie'' ‘everywhere’ (all places), etc.

WordNet
correlative
  1. adj. mutually related [syn: correlate, correlated]

  2. expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation; "correlative conjunctions"

  3. n. either of two correlated variables [syn: correlate]

Wikipedia
Correlative

In grammar, correlatives are words that are separated in a sentence but function together to perform a single function.

In English, examples are both—and, either—or, neither—nor, the—the ("the more the better"), so—that ("it ate so much food that it burst"), and if—then. In the Romance languages, the demonstrative pro-forms function as correlatives with the relative pro-forms, as autant—que in French; in English, demonstratives are not used in such constructions, which depend on the relative only: "I saw what you did", rather than *"I saw that, what you did".

Usage examples of "correlative".

The self-system, in other words, is the regime or codon of the human holon, and like all regimes, it is the opening or clearing in which correlative holons can manifest: it is Emptiness looking out through a separate self until that self simply reverts to Emptiness per se.

They were a source of what Peter Berger calls nihilation, which, as I view it, is any threat to the cultural translation process of generating meaning and its correlative form of social integration and stability.

I wish here only to draw attention to the fact that all holons possess a degree of depth, with its correlative rights, existing in a span with correlative responsibilities, and that as our own awareness evolves to greater depth itself, it more adequately unpacks the Basic Moral Intuition, which infuses us with an awareness, and a drive, and a demand, to extend the greatest depth to the greatest span, as best we can under the ridiculous circumstances known as samsara.

Thus, the entire Kosmos exists as a network of rights and responsibilities correlative with degrees of depth and consciousness.

The discovery of these books, however much appreciated in view of the paucity of correlative material, occasioned further difficulties when it was found that a method of reckoning time was used in them that had been quite unknown in the old Mayan kingdom.

Matter should be the cause of Mind, in that precise degree must it be unthinkable that Mind was ever the cause of Matter, the correlatives being in each case the same, and experience affording no evidence of causality in either.

And forasmuch as Something and Nothing would then become actual, as distinguished from nominal correlatives, we could have no guarantee that, in an absolute or transcendental sense, it may not be possible, although it is inconceivable, for Something to become Nothing or Nothing Something.

It may happen that both correlatives exist in one object-likeness and unlikeness, and, in general, identity and difference, so that the same thing will be at once like and unlike, identical and different.

What then in these instances can be the meaning of correlatives apart from our conception of their juxtaposition?

It was the dissolution of this homogeneous field of orderable representations, in the last years of the eighteenth century, that brought about the correlative appearance of two new forms of thought.

And Randal, with the aid of correlative spells from the finest sorcerers in Tyse, would surely fool the witch.

If we find changes in protein synthesis, say, in a correlative experiment, how can we be sure that such changed synthesis is not the consequence of these expressed behaviours rather than the learning which we presume accompanies them?

We have already observed that nature has established connexions among particular ideas, and that no sooner one idea occurs to our thoughts than it introduces its correlative, and carries our attention towards it, by a gentle and insensible movement.

The self-system, in other words, is the regime or codon of the human holon, and like all regimes, it is the opening or clearing in which correlative holons can manifest: it is Emptiness looking out through a separate self until that self simply reverts to Emptiness per se.

If in his judgment it throws any light on one of the deeper mysteries of our nature,--the repulsions which play such a formidable part in social life, and which must be recognized as the correlatives of the affinities that distribute the individuals governed by them in the face of impediments which seem to be impossibilities,--then it may be freely given to the world.