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Reciprocation

noun

The act of making or doing something in return.

Alternating back-and-forth movement.

Mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information). Synonyms: give-and-take, interchange.

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"Reciprocation" Quotes from Famous Books

... two bodies are brought into contact with each other, the weak must naturally draw from the strong until both have become equal. And as long as this equality exists there will be perfect harmony between individuals, because of the reciprocation which exists ...

— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... bitterness of his friends, always shows a certain tenderness of nature which preserves him from sweeping cynicism. He really believes in nature, and values life for the power of what Johnson calls reciprocation of benevolence. The beauty of his affection for his father and mother, and for his old nurse, breaks pleasantly through the artificial language of his letters, like a sweet spring in barren ground. When he touches upon the subject in his poetry, one seems to see tears in his eyes, ...

— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen