Definition of Reciprocative

1. Adjective. Given or done or owed to each other.

Exact synonyms: Reciprocatory
Similar to: Mutual, Reciprocal
Derivative terms: Reciprocate, Reciprocate

2. Adjective. Moving alternately backward and forward.
Exact synonyms: Reciprocatory
Similar to: Mutual, Reciprocal
Derivative terms: Reciprocate, Reciprocate, Reciprocate

Definition of Reciprocative

1. Adjective. (archaic) Reciprocated; giving back to one another. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reciprocative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reciprocative

reciprocalities
reciprocality
reciprocally
reciprocalness
reciprocals
reciprocate
reciprocated
reciprocates
reciprocating
reciprocating engine
reciprocating engines
reciprocating rhythm
reciprocating saw
reciprocation
reciprocations
reciprocative (current term)
reciprocatively
reciprocator
reciprocators
reciprocatory
reciprocities
reciprocity
reciprocity law
reciprocity principle
reciprocornous
reciprocous
reciproque
recircle
recircled
recircles

Literary usage of Reciprocative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Modalist: Or, The Laws of Rational Conviction. A Textbook in Formal Or by Edward John Hamilton (1891)
"But we judge that reciprocative arguments are more frequently completed by the methods of the "separating consequents," and the "common-antecedent," than in ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"Anthropology has written the history of these bipolar, reciprocative forces. Competition declares it to be a duel. Antagonism. Co-operation proves it to be ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"Our four-handed cousins apparently credit their biped kinsmen with reciprocative tendencies. Three years ago a New York pet-dealer shipped me a ..."

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