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Reciprocation   Listen
noun
Reciprocation  n.  
1.
The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.
2.
Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides.





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"Reciprocation" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


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


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