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  • verb Present participle of outbalance.

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Examples

  • Many think a few words at last will do it, and there is an end; but let me assure you, not only upon principles of Scripture truth, but of nature, there is no man can do it that hath not a view into the glory of spiritual and eternal things, outbalancing all his soul parts withal in this world.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • For, by the obedience and sufferings of the Son of God incarnate, there was full satisfaction made unto the justice of God for the sins of man, a reparation of his glory, and an exaltation of the honour of his holiness, with all the other properties of his nature, as also of his law, outbalancing all the diminution of it by the first apostasy of mankind; as hath been declared.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • Arnold Schoenberg might stand as an example of the equally excessive outbalancing of sensibility by brain-stuff.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • With the reign of Edward III. and the rise of Wickliffe, the religious element attains for the first time to clear and impressive prominence, working alongside of, and even outbalancing, the political action.

    Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883

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