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.

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  • noun a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence

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Examples

  • 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.

    Twitpitch « BuzzMachine 2008

  • Healthy reciprocality is not evidenced by the actions of Israel.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • An acknowledged reciprocality in love sanctifies every little freedom: and little freedoms beget greater.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • 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?

    International Marriage Broker Act passes! Plus, Bush admin refuses to release rules to help battered immigrant women. 2005

  • Their activities are based upon reciprocality, and they are to a certain extent the complements of one another.

    The Negro 1915

  • 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

  • The principle of reciprocality seems to require that its obligation on the other States should be reduced to the same standard.

    The Federalist Papers 1788

  • 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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