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Definition of Reciprocative
1. Adjective. Given or done or owed to each other.
Similar to: Mutual, Reciprocal
Derivative terms: Reciprocate, Reciprocate
2. Adjective. Moving alternately backward and forward.
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
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 ..."