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Reciprocation

noun
1.
The act of making or doing something in return.
2.
Alternating back-and-forth movement.
3.
Mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information).  Synonyms: give-and-take, interchange.






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"Reciprocation" Quotes from Famous Books



... spread, For ever wand'ring, yet for ever fix'd. Nor does division weaken, nor the force Of constant operation e'er exhaust Parental love. All other passions change With changing circumstances; rise or fall, Dependent on their object; claim returns; Live on reciprocation, and expire, Unfed by hope. A mother's fondness reigns, Without a rival, and ...
— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I • Francis Augustus Cox

... relieved and protected by his presence. The city of London, which had been the main seat of disaffection and hostility to the royal family, began to show symptoms of returning loyalty and friendly regard. In reciprocation for this, the king determined on making a grand entry into the city, to pay a sort of visit to the authorities. He rode, on this occasion, in a splendid chariot of state, with the little prince by his side. Queen ...
— History of King Charles II of England • Jacob Abbott

... this disposition enmities must not only be frequent, but, once begun, must be eternal: for, each retaliation being a fresh injury, and consequently requiring a fresh satisfaction, no period can be assigned to the reciprocation of affronts, and to the progress of hatred, but that which closes the lives, or at least the intercourse, of ...
— Evidences of Christianity • William Paley

... mouth, and massive thoughtful forehead were redeemed from heaviness by the humorous light that twinkled in his deep-set grey eyes, which, bright as diamonds, positively flashed out their fun, or their reciprocation of the fun of others. As a young man, dark crisp curls covered his head; but later in life, when, having exchanged the sword for the pen and the plougshare [sic], he affected a soberer and more patriarchal style of dress and manner, he wore his grey hair long, ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat

... Fuseli had been disengaged at the period of their acquaintance, he would have been the man of her choice. As it was, she conceived it both practicable and eligible, to cultivate a distinguishing affection for him, and to foster it by the endearments of personal intercourse and a reciprocation of kindness, without departing in the smallest degree from the rules ...
— Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman • William Godwin

... comedies which may be made by a mind vigorous and acute, and furnished with comic characters by the perusal of other poets, without much actual commerce with mankind. The dialogue is one constant reciprocation of conceits or clash of wit, in which nothing flows necessarily from the occasion, or is dictated by nature. The characters, both of men and women, are either fictitious and artificial, as those of Heartwell and the ladies, or easy and common, ...
— Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope • Samuel Johnson

... Moweaqua, Ill., has patented an improvement in the class of atmospheric clothes pounders, that is to say, pounders which are constructed with one or more chambers or cavities in which the air is alternately compressed and allowed to expand at each reciprocation. ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various



Words linked to "Reciprocation" :   motility, traffic, cross-fertilization, reciprocity, paying back, return, reciprocate, interaction, movement, dealings, cross-fertilisation, interchange, move, getting even, motion, give-and-take



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