different between reciprocation vs counterchange

English

Etymology

reciprocate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reciprocation (countable and uncountable, plural reciprocations)

1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning

2. 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.

Translations

See also

• requital
• retaliation

References

• reciprocation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• reciprocation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “reciprocation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle French contrechange (noun), contrechanger (verb).

Verb

counterchange (third-person singular simple present counterchanges, present participle counterchanging, simple past and past participle counterchanged)

1. To give and receive; C; to exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.

Synonyms

• (to cause to change places): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
• (to checker): checker, freck (rare, poetic)

Noun

counterchange (plural counterchanges)

1. (obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
2. (obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].

References

• counterchange in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• counterchange in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.