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Reciprocally

adverb
1.
(often followed by 'for') in exchange or in reciprocation.  Synonym: in return.  "We get many benefits in return for our taxes"
2.
In a mutual or shared manner.  Synonym: mutually.  "The goals of the negotiators were not reciprocally exclusive"
3.
In an inverse or contrary manner.  Synonym: inversely.  "Wavelength and frequency are, of course, related reciprocally"






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"Reciprocally" Quotes from Famous Books



... teachers, but I never listened to any one like Albert Dodd. It was not with him the mere description of styles and dates; it was a deep and truly aesthetic feeling that every phase of architecture mirrors and reciprocally forms its age, and breathes its life and poetry and religion, which characterised all that he said. It was in nothing like the subjective rhapsodies of Ruskin, which bloomed out eight years later, but rather in the spirit ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... the money; about which there was a hearing before Saturninus and Volumnius, who were then the presidents of Syria. [11] At last he, by their means, agreed, that within thirty days' time Herod should be paid his money, and that each of them should deliver up the other's subjects reciprocally. Now, as to Herod, there was not one of the other's subjects found in his kingdom, either as doing any injustice, or on any other account, but it was proved that the Arabians had the robbers ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... obvious that they cannot be "plotted" upon a correct chart. Conversely, if they ARE made to conform to a succession of islands among which he is known to have sailed, it is evident that this is a genuine transcript of the authentic "log" of Columbus, and, reciprocally, that we have the true track, the beginning of which is the eventful ...
— The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals • Edward Everett Hale

... brought a husband,—and Sheba cameled across the desert to call on Solomon? The creditor character of the visitation survives in the common expression 'paying a call.' In both these cases, however, the calls took on a lighter and brighter aspect, a more reciprocally admiring and well-affected intimacy, than was strictly necessary to an act of political homage. One is, after all, human; and the absence of marital partners, whose presence is always a little subduing, must be taken into consideration. 'But Solomon,' ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren

... soon as a child is given to a woman to nurse, she, her husband, children, and grandchildren are bound to it by ties more dear even than those of blood-relationship; she would yield up her life for the child, and the latter, when grown up, is reciprocally dutiful. It is a curious fact that even grown-up people can contract this sort of relationship. "Thus peasant-women are very anxious to have grown-up princesses become then foster-children—the latter simply bite gently the breasts of their foster-mothers, and ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain


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