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Mutual

Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.

Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort.

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Acting, Advantage, And, As, Assistance, At, Aversion, By, Common, Done, Effort, Experienced, Given, Giving, Happiness, Interchanged, Joint, Love, More, Mutual, Or, Possessed, Received, Receiving, Reciprocal, Reciprocally, Related, Same, The, Time, Two

Mutual Quotations

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
William Blake

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James Madison

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul II

Mutual Translations

mutual in Danish is gensidig
mutual in Dutch is wederkerig, wederzijds, onderling
mutual in Finnish is vastavuoroinen
mutual in German is beiderseitig, gegenseitig
mutual in Spanish is mutuo, mutua

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