Both Uses of
reciprocal
in
Moby Dick
- These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds, only to bound forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.†
Chpt Extr
- Now in the present case Erskine contended that the examples of the whale and the lady were reciprocally illustrative of each other.†
Chpt 88-90 *
Definition:
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(reciprocal as in: reciprocal privileges) something shared or interchanged equally
(such as equal responsibility, shared feelings, mutual respect, or exchanged aid)