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reciprocous

reciprocous is the obsolete form of reciprocal.

Meaning of reciprocal

Adjective

reciprocal (not comparable)

  1. Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
    • reciprocal love
    Synonyms:
    reciprocating
  2. Mutually interchangeable.
    • These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […]...
  3. Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
  4. Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.

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Questions about reciprocous

What is reciprocous the obsolete form of?
Reciprocous is the obsolete form of reciprocal.

Words near reciprocous in the dictionary

  1. reciprocity
  2. reciprocity law
  3. reciprocity principle
  4. reciprocity principles
  5. reciprock
  6. reciprocous
  7. recipromantic
  8. recipromatic
  9. reciproque
  10. reciprosexual
  11. reciprosexuals

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