Meanings
- archaicnot comparableReciprocated; giving back to one another.
With the recognition of the masculine and feminine elements as separate entities, the principle of duality was universally admitted. Every force of nature, and likewise every representative of each force, was divided into two reciprocative but separate entities.
1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 18
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivegiven or done or owed to each other
adjectivemoving alternately backward and forward
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