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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



... say, for example, that any event exercises a reciprocal influence on the sun, but apart from such relatively few cases it would not only be supposed that A is the cause of the effect B, but also that B might have reciprocally influenced A. Regard for this possibility may ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... birr!' and a magnificent covey rose at ten paces from me. I aimed. Pif! paf! and I saw a shower, a veritable shower of birds. There were seven of them!"—And they all went into raptures, amazed, but reciprocally credulous. ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant • David Widger

... as before. And by this it will be proved that the waves which come from the point L, after having passed through the glass KAKB, will take the form of straight lines, as BC; which is the same thing as saying that the rays will become parallel. Whence it follows reciprocally that parallel rays falling on the surface KDB will be reassembled at the ...
— Treatise on Light • Christiaan Huygens

... of Severus, we lived at first close to one another in separate parts of the same palace like two lions in a cage across which a partition has been erected, so that they may not reciprocally mangle ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... distressed he must have been, for he took his brother-chip, Tom Toole, whom he loved not, to counsel upon his case—of course, strictly as a question of dandelion, or gentian, or camomile flowers; and Tom, who, as we all know, loved him reciprocally, frightened him as well as he could, offered to take charge of his case, and said, looking hard at him out of the corner of his cunning, resolute little eye, as ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu


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