An understanding proportionate to thine, that is, a recipiency at least of thine: -- 2. natural sensibility and lively sympathy in general: -- 3. steadiness in attaching and retaining sensibility to its proper objects in its proper proportions: -- 4. mutual liking; including person and all the thousand obscure sympathies that determine conjugal liking, that is, love and desire to A. rather than to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference

The ratio you should look up is called the "recipiency" rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should Make-Work Count?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Analysis of unemployment insurance recipiency rates (SuDoc L 37.213/2: 99-7) by U.S. Dept of Labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Today's Real Unemployment Rate: a Depresson Level of 20%] Reference

This means learning to abandon passivity, as Dewey said, changing from a position of "inert recipiency and restraint to one of buoyant outgoing energy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Roth: Good and Risky: The Promise of a Liberal Education] Reference

It is the nearest thing to a passive recipiency -- is it not?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference

His fullness is met by our emptiness, His giving by our recipiency, His faithfulness by our faith, His command by our obedience, His light by our eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference

Federal legislation has extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefi ts for a maximum of 33 weeks beyond the regular 26 weeks of state benefi ts; however, the unemployment insurance recipiency rate is still unacceptably low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Policy Institute] Reference

But he requires your sympathy and your submission; you must have that recipiency of moral impression without which the purposes and ends of the drama would be frustrated, and the absence of which demonstrates an utter want of all imagination, a deadness to that necessary pleasure of being innocently -- shall I say, deluded?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference

But he requires your sympathy and your submission; you must have that recipiency of moral impression without which the purposes and ends of the drama would be frustrated, and the absence of which demonstrates an utter want of all imagination, a deadness to that necessary pleasure of being innocently — shall I say, deluded? — or rather, drawn away from ourselves to the music of noblest thought in harmonious sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference

It is the nearest thing to a passive recipiency ” is it not? ” as a mental action, though it leaves one as weary as ennui itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]

A man here, if life it be, and not the vain image of what might be a life, is a continual attempt to find his place, his centre of recipiency, and active agency.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference

Progress, -- but taking for the regular appellative one which had the no meaning of a proper name in real life, and which yet was capable of recalling a number of very different, but all pertinent, recollections, as old armour, the precious metals hidden in the ore, &c. Don Quixote's leanness and featureliness are happy exponents of the excess of the formative or imaginative in him, contrasted with Sancho's plump rotundity, and recipiency of external impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference