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Reciprocity   /rˌɛsɪprˈɑsɪti/   Listen
Reciprocity

noun
1.
A relation of mutual dependence or action or influence.  Synonym: reciprocality.
2.
Mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges.






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"Reciprocity" Quotes from Famous Books



... such a reciprocity arises from the nature of our government, as a confederation, since there is no identity in our own criminal jurisprudence: but a chief reason is the exceedingly artificial condition of your society, ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... Reciprocity in sex love is the physical counterpart of sympathy. More marriages fail from inadequate and clumsy sex love than from too much ...
— Love--Marriage--Birth Control - Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at - Birmingham, October, 1921 • Bertrand Dawson

... Absence of strong sexual reciprocity on the part of my wife. I have referred to this above. She likes intercourse, but she is never outwardly demonstrative. She has naturally a chaste mind. She never is guilty of those little indecencies which affect some men a great deal. She does not like talking of these things; ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... restricted to citizens or subjects of nations permitting the benefit of copyright to Americans on substantially the same terms as their own citizens, or of nations who have international agreements providing for reciprocity in the grant of copyright, to which the United States may at its ...
— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

... as the late Colonel Waring of New York, Dr. Fulton of Baltimore, and Dr. Wende of Buffalo have repeatedly pointed out the debt of death and suffering which the city, often well organized against infections, owes to the unorganized and uncaring rural districts. Reciprocity in health matters can be represented, numerically, by the figure zero. It occasionally happens that the conflict between private and public interests assumes an obviously amusing phase. The present admirable Food and Drug Department of the Indiana board was not established ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various


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