different between mutuality vs pollicitation

English

mutual +? -ity

mutuality (countable and uncountable, plural mutualities)

The property of being mutual.
The mutuality of mutually assured destruction is key to its function as a deterrent.

Borrowed from Latin pollicit?ti?.

pollicitation (plural pollicitations)

A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise.
(Roman law) A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not been accepted by the person to whom it is made.

pollicitation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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