reciprocation

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Then the proportion will be correct, A:B::C:D; now Reciprocation will be practicable, if it were not, there would have been no dealing.

From Ethics by Aristotle

Even the Seeds of these two plants are so alike that one sometimes sows Antipathy when he thinks he is sowing Reciprocation.

From Cupid's Almanac and Guide to Hearticulture for This Year and Next by Clay, John Cecil

Antipathy, another noxious weed, in its early stages often resembles Reciprocation, the very sweetest of all the early spring flowers.

From Cupid's Almanac and Guide to Hearticulture for This Year and Next by Clay, John Cecil

Reciprocation of question and answer, variety of topics, shifting of topics, are points not sufficiently cultivated.

From Miscellaneous Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

VI. of Book I., where there is interpolated a gratuitously gorgeous myth or fable, which may be entitled Eros and Anteros, or Love and Its Reciprocation.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David