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  • He would have recoiled still more had he been aware that her attachment rose unsolicited, and was bestowed where it awakened no reciprocation of sentiment; for the minute he discovered its existence he laid the blame on Heathcliff's deliberate designing.   (source)
    reciprocation = return
  • They regarded me with distrust, which I reciprocated.†   (source)
  • The Count reciprocated in kind and with a polite bow of the head turned to walk away.†   (source)
  • Parzival: I refuse to answer any more questions until you start reciprocating.†   (source)
  • The Helpers, feeling compelled to reciprocate, stopped walking and set down their buckets so they could wave back.†   (source)
  • She didn't have to reciprocate in order to get invitations, either.†   (source)
  • In the driveway there are hugs and kisses good-bye, initiated by Maxine, his parents reciprocating clumsily.†   (source)
  • And is it even possible for me to feel this way about him without these feelings being reciprocated?†   (source)
  • You flirt and say things like you have intentions with me that I'm not willing to reciprocate.†   (source)
  • Jared had told her about a new level of reciprocation encouraged among the CE staff.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure she didn't reciprocate the sentiment," muttered Luke.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I was expected to laugh heartily; or indeed, reciprocate with some remark of my own.†   (source)
  • That her son had developed all the latent characteristics of a three-dollar bill escaped her notice—all she knew was that she was glad he lived in Birmingham because he was oppressively devoted to her, which meant that she felt obliged to make an effort to reciprocate, which she could not with any spontaneity do.†   (source)
  • When his food gets knocked on the floor, he should reciprocate?†   (source)
  • He was extremely cordial and reciprocated these sentiments.†   (source)
  • By jettisoning the Under 15 team, Luma still wouldn't have time for herself exactly, but she could focus her energies on the kids who were reciprocating her commitment to the Fugees.†   (source)
  • I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection.†   (source)
  • Lots of us reach out to those different from ourselves, or to those more famous or successful than we are, but that gesture isn't always reciprocated.†   (source)
  • To reciprocate perhaps.†   (source)
  • I feel her body soften just slightly against mine, but she doesn't move her arms or reciprocate.†   (source)
  • He waved back to everyone in elegant reciprocation and showered generous handfuls of foilcovered Hershey kisses to the rejoicing multitudes.†   (source)
  • Our parents reciprocated with gifts to the grooms' familiesof eggs and rice to symbolize our fertility.†   (source)
  • "I'll try to reciprocate as much as I can."†   (source)
  • It's not just the recollection of what Rob said and how Cedric failed to reciprocate that eats at him.†   (source)
  • At first Tereza gave way, but when she realized her courtesy was not being reciprocated, she started clutching her umbrella like the other women and ramming it forcefully against the oncoming umbrellas.†   (source)
  • Don't waste more years pursuing love that might never be reciprocated.†   (source)
  • He told her stories of his days as commander of the Forest Guard, and she reciprocated with memories of her days in the desert: how they made use of the desert wheat, where they found their water, what it was like to grow up playing with other children who weren't of royal blood.†   (source)
  • When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.†   (source)
  • It is long since I took a pipe, but [Adams wrote] …. with great complacency, [I] placed the bowl upon the carpet …. and smoked in awful pomp, reciprocating whiff for whiff …. until coffee was brought in.†   (source)
  • But how could I let him give me things when I had nothing to reciprocate with?†   (source)
  • He states unequivocally that any missile launched by the Cubans or Soviets will he considered an act of war and that the United States will reciprocate with missiles of its own.†   (source)
  • Personal questions could be reciprocated with personal questions.†   (source)
  • Is this certain personal interest reciprocated?†   (source)
  • He let go of my hand only in order to reciprocate.†   (source)
  • As to demonstrating that I bore them no ill will — this I felt would be easy enough to do, but would be of little value unless the wolves felt like reciprocating.†   (source)
  • Obviously, though, the time has come for me to reciprocate, and so I do.†   (source)
  • For a long time, for long months, Siddhartha waited for his son to understand him, to accept his love, to perhaps reciprocate it.†   (source)
  • He treated almost everybody on our block with a most uncharitable asperity and neither they, nor, of course, their children were slow to reciprocate.†   (source)
  • He added her to the friends on his personal Circle profile, and asked that she reciprocate.†   (source)
  • He knew that she had intended this move as invitation, but he had not reciprocated.†   (source)
  • She forced a smile, one that wasn't reciprocated.†   (source)
  • Maybe that's why I am so determined to reciprocate.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jefferson replied to this letter and reciprocated expressions of regard and esteem.†   (source)
  • He'd given me so much, and now, here, Iwas finally ready to reciprocate.†   (source)
  • Might I reciprocate for that wonderful dinner?†   (source)
  • If only I had as much spare time as you evidently do, then I would happily reciprocate by wandering about this house reminding _you-- of tasks you have perfectly well in hand.†   (source)
  • There had been changes made—there were now nine screens, and the CEs were encouraged to be delving far deeper with their clients, to reciprocate in far-reaching ways—but the work was essentially the same, and Mae found that she appreciated the rhythm of it, the almost meditative quality of doing something she knew in her bones, and she found herself being drawn to CE at times of stress or calamity.†   (source)
  • As it happened, I had that same morning been giving thought to the dilemma of whether or not I was expected to reciprocate my employer's bantering, and had been seriously worried at how he might be viewing my repeated failure to respond to such openings.†   (source)
  • But Mae was happy to answer them, feeling her opinion mattered and was being heard, and this kind of reciprocation would engender loyalty from Nanci and all who Nanci came into contact with.†   (source)
  • Mae told Nanci she had no intentions of making her feel devalued, that things were just busy at the Circle, and that she had spaced on this essential reciprocation, which she quickly remedied.†   (source)
  • At 10:11 p.m., she said good night to her watchers—there were only 98,027 at that point, a few thousand of whom reciprocated her goodnight wishes—lifted the lens over her head and placed it in its case.†   (source)
  • I've never loved anyone but you, I wanted to say, but common sense prevailed, reminding me that it would be better to save those words for another time, when I had her full attention and the words might be reciprocated.†   (source)
  • I reciprocate his handshake.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid I cannot reciprocate.†   (source)
  • I tried to reciprocate, even though I suddenly felt uneasy, remembering that night I'd seen him in this same place with Roscoe.†   (source)
  • I added that when the state stopped inflicting violence on the ANC, the ANC would reciprocate with peace.†   (source)
  • Whenever additional money was needed — a trip, a car, the house — Marie or David would call their banker in the Caymans and he would credit the funds by wire to any of five dozen reciprocating banks in Europe, the United States, the Pacific Islands and the Far East.†   (source)
  • I'm standing behind Will at this point, so I take the opportunity to reciprocate one of her infamous glares.†   (source)
  • The writer goes on to add archly that it would be common courtesy for the president and First Lady to reciprocate by inviting Aristotle Onassis to the White House next time he's in the United States.†   (source)
  • It was thirteen or fourteen months ago, and although their friendship could not be called deep — four or five lunches, a dinner that Catherine had prepared and one reciprocated by Marie — she had learned quite a bit about the woman who did her job better than most men.†   (source)
  • He wished to be friends still : The friendship with which you honored me has ever been valued and fully reciprocated; and although events have been passing which might be trying to some minds, I never believed yours to be of that kind, nor felt that my own was.†   (source)
  • I beg you to reciprocate my feelings.†   (source)
  • Considering everything that had been done to him, his foot now no more than a painfully awkward dead weight surgically encased in stolen flesh, a once brilliant career a shambles, his personal life filled with a loneliness that only a total commitment to the Agency could bring about — a devotion not reciprocated what right had anyone else to turn?†   (source)
  • How long this went on I do not know, but when at last it occurred to me to reciprocate or try to, and began to unlimber my own tongue with a gargling sound, I felt hers retract like a deflated bladder, and she pulled her mouth away from mine, then pressed her face against my cheek.†   (source)
  • I certainly hope and expect you to feel that the Coldfields are qualified to reciprocate whatever particularly signal honor marriage with anyone might confer upon them.†   (source)
  • Oh, that you still cherish a romantic schoolgirl passion for him which he reciprocates as well as his honorable nature will permit him.†   (source)
  • And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights.†   (source)
  • The prince reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt for her.†   (source)
  • 'Certainly not,' replied the Jew, reciprocating the grin with which Charley put the question.†   (source)
  • 'Certainly I do,' replied the father-in-law, reciprocating the schoolmaster's grin.†   (source)
  • The landlord reciprocated the old man's laugh; and returned to his guests.†   (source)
  • Yet she was a woman of the people, a worker: otherwise—let me reciprocate your bluntness—I should have scorned her.†   (source)
  • Tess would fain not have conversed with Marian of the man who was legally, if not actually, her husband; but the irresistible fascination of the subject betrayed her into reciprocating Marian's remarks.†   (source)
  • Little Chandler said nothing until the barman returned with two glasses: then he touched his friend's glass lightly and reciprocated the former toast.†   (source)
  • Shefford watched long enough to see that the girl loved the missionary, and that he reciprocated or was pretending.†   (source)
  • Carley realized how right and true it might be for her to throw herself away upon an inferior man, even a fool or a knave, if she loved him with that great and natural love of woman; likewise it dawned upon her how false and wrong and sinful it would be to marry the greatest or the richest or the noblest man unless she had that supreme love to give him, and knew it was reciprocated.†   (source)
  • And Ratterer reciprocated that feeling, for he had the notion that Clyde was innocent and inexperienced and that he would like to do some little thing for him if he could.†   (source)
  • He looks older; is getting prematurely bald; and, in spite of an effusion of goodnature and friendliness, is peevish and sensitive when his advances are not reciprocated.†   (source)
  • And yet Sondra, flattered as she was by this hunger, and reciprocating it in part at least, merely repeated the various things she had said before.†   (source)
  • Nor is this any very easy matter; for in his rear is the immense projecting steering oar hitting him now and then in the small of his back, the after-oar reciprocating by rapping his knees in front.†   (source)
  • His reason and his propensities had seldom any reciprocating influence, having separated by mutual consent long ago: thence it sometimes happened that, while his intentions were as honourable as could be wished, any particular deed formed a dark background which threw them into fine relief.†   (source)
  • He feelingly alluded to the young lady, unknown, whom Traddles had honoured with his affection, and who had reciprocated that affection by honouring and blessing Traddles with her affection.†   (source)
  • And so you chance to find, you know," Mr. Bucket went on, stooping over him with an air of cheerful raillery which Mr. Smallweed by no means reciprocated, "and so you chance to find, you know, a paper with the signature of Jarndyce to it.†   (source)
  • The jokes of Richard never failed of exciting risibility, for he uniformly did honor to his own wit; and he enjoyed a hearty laugh on the present occasion, while Mr. Le Quoi resumed his seat with a polite reciprocation in his mirth.†   (source)
  • …or whether the place where he stood was so treacherous and oozy; or whether the Evil One himself would have it to fall out so, without stating his particular reasons; how it was exactly, there is no telling now; but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up—my God! poor Tashtego—like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of sight!†   (source)
  • If, on the eve of such a departure, you will accompany our mutual friend, Mr. Thomas Traddles, to our present abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to the occasion, you will confer a Boon 'On 'One 'Who 'Is 'Ever yours, 'WILKINS MICAWBER.'†   (source)
  • Having pretty good reason, by this time, to reciprocate it, he had no great difficulty in arriving at this conclusion, and tried to persuade himself that the feeling extended no farther than between them.†   (source)
  • Before his removal, he had managed to contract a strong friendship for Mr. Grimwig, which that eccentric gentleman cordially reciprocated.†   (source)
  • And they can really form no conception of an unreciprocated malice.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreciprocated means not and reverses the meaning of reciprocated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • In what manners did she reciprocate?†   (source)
  • In virtue of a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden Quay, b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and reappropriated in person, c) comparative youth subject to impulses of ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d) extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative, e) an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net…†   (source)
  • MOS: 'tis true, By my device, drawn to it by my plot, With hope— VOLT: Your patron should reciprocate?†   (source)
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