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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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Etymology of 'Reciprocation'

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"Reciprocation" Quotes from Famous Books

... how to shoot,' and forming the mind to rectitude of conduct; and whose labors are tremendous—I speak from long and considerable experience in scholastic pursuits. I am as perfectly aware as any man of the friendly intercourse, urbanity, and social reciprocation of kindness and demeanor that ought to exist among Teachers;—and, in a word, that they should be like the sun and moon—receptacles of each other's light. But these malicious, ignorant, callous-hearted traducers finding it perfectly congenial to their usual habits, and perhaps feeling ...

— The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh • William Carleton

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