Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being reciprocal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness.
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- noun The quality or condition of being
reciprocal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
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Examples
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I think the word “community” is overused and misused but it is this kind of reciprocality without compensation that makes a social network feel more like a community and less like a business network.
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Healthy reciprocality is not evidenced by the actions of Israel.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The populace became a supplicant citizenry dependent upon the state rather than themselves and the socialist state aborted indigenous traditions of working class self – help, reciprocality and social insurance.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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The populace became a supplicant citizenry dependent upon the state rather than themselves and the socialist state aborted indigenous traditions of working class self – help, reciprocality and social insurance.
Blond & Liberty 2009
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An acknowledged reciprocality in love sanctifies every little freedom: and little freedoms beget greater.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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So, um, does your argument against the basic concept that non-reciprocality is fundamentally different than reciprocality, or your argument that no marriage could be akin to prostitution in any meaningful sense rise to the level that you are making anti-feminist arguments in an anti-feminist intolerant thread?
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Their activities are based upon reciprocality, and they are to a certain extent the complements of one another.
The Negro 1915
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I am for a philosophical religion, and a philosophical religion is for _me_ -- ay! we are mutually made and formed for this beautiful reciprocality!
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887
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The principle of reciprocality seems to require that its obligation on the other States should be reduced to the same standard.
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The principle of reciprocality seems to require that its obligation on the other States should be reduced to the same standard.
The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton 1780
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