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Meanings of reciprocatory in English

Moving alternately backward and forward.

        Reciprocating.

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              Examples for "reciprocating"
              1
              Parzival: I refuse to answer any more questions until you start reciprocating.
              Ready Player One
              2
              The new reciprocating device, and the self-feeding storage batteries are fully covered.
              The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
              3
              Heartily reciprocating his good wishes, Randal attended Captain Bennydeck to the door.
              The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story
              4
              During this speech Cowperwood's brain had been reciprocating like a well-oiled machine.
              The Titan
              5
              There's virtually no record of Madiba reciprocating the kind words of his counterpart.
              The South African
              Usage of reciprocatory in English
              1
              The reciprocatory payment being successfully carried through, it now remains for the bridegroom's relatives to give the farewell feast and carry off the bride.
              The Manóbos of Mindanáo / Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci...
              2
              He therefore doubles up this marvelous fact of a mother's love, and creates in his imagination a reciprocatory agency co-respondent to this mother's love.
              The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
              Reciprocatory through the time