Reciprocation vs Counterchange - What's the difference?
reciprocation | counterchange |
The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.
Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides; oscillation.
*1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
*:... the same pendulum alwayes maketh its reciprocations in equall times .
To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
(obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
As nouns the difference between reciprocation and counterchange
is that reciprocation is the act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness while counterchange is (obsolete) an exchange of one thing for another.As a verb counterchange is
to give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.reciprocation
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* * *counterchange
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Verb
(counterchang)- Witch-elms that counterchange the floor / Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.
Noun
(en noun)- But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].