responsion

By surface analysis, response +‎ -ion.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɒnʃən/

responsion (plural responsions)

1. (rare) An answer or reply; a response.
   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “I. Introduction”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 12:

     The Greek choral ode is obligated to preserve all but mathematical balance of rigid quantitative responsion.

2. (UK, education, historical, in the plural) The first of three examinations once required for an academic degree at the University of Oxford; nicknamed the little go and generally taken around the time of matriculation.

• response

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “responsion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.