Counterpoise [noun]
Definition of Counterpoise:
counterweight
Sentence/Example of Counterpoise:
I felt that the only counterpoise to my cruelty to you in my drawing-room would be to come as a suppliant to yours.'
This was a dream which is obviously a counterpoise to the exaggerated feeling of royal power.
Then the counterpoise is diminished; the mechanical difficulty of lifting is augmented, yet still it takes place.
Against the suffering of sensuous nature the human heart has only recourse to its moral nature as counterpoise.
This may not be a counterpoise to the existing evils, but it is at least a share of mortal good, and good of an exquisite kind.
In this single individual he possessed an adequate counterpoise to the most dreaded cabal.
The colleges began as a counterpoise to the schools of the regular and mendicant orders, more particularly the latter.
It is the law of human nature, and the claims of the living are the counterpoise to the memory of the dead.
This was probably to act as a counterpoise, and also to facilitate drawing the piece from the holster.
No representative system, or other popular organization, by way of counterpoise to this governing power, is ever contemplated.