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A certain shyness on such subjects, which was
mutual between the sisters.

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

A vast accession of misery and woe from the
mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of
teeth.

&fist; This use of mutual as synonymous with
common is inconsistent with the idea of interchange, or
reciprocal relation, which properly belongs to it; but the word has
been so used by many writers of high authority. The present tendency
is toward a careful discrimination.

Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means
something reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people have
mutual ancestors?

Mutual insurance, agreement among a number
of persons to insure each other against loss, as by fire, death, or
accident. -- Mutual insurance company, one
which does a business of insurance on the mutual principle, the
policy holders sharing losses and profits pro rata.


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