CORRELATIVE

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

The antecedent of a pronoun.

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