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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
countervail .
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Examples
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Some (including me) like to use she as the default instead of he (on the idea that it countervails against the tendency of treating masculinity as the default, while also calling attention to it).
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Is the Note suggesting that Purposivists which it countervails against Textualists would reach any other result?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Alito’s Use of Legislative History: 2007
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The pious and the powerful find little need, however, to willfully distort scientific knowledge when society as a whole joins them in ignoring information that countervails not only religious and political aims, but individual material desires as well.
Doctoring Science 2007
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The pious and the powerful find little need, however, to willfully distort scientific knowledge when society as a whole joins them in ignoring information that countervails not only religious and political aims, but individual material desires as well.
Science 101 2007
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So that a few times hitting or presence countervails ofttimes failing or absence, as was well answered by Diagoras to him that showed him in
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We affirm there can be unnumberd Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails anotherand that men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them.
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No merit quite countervails the want of this, whilst this sometimes stands in lieu of all.
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Prejudices of this kind, sir, are often so powerful an to persuade us that whatever countervails them is the extremity of folly and that the peculiar path of wisdom is that which leads to their gratification.
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There can be any number of SupremesOne does not countervail another, any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
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We affirm there can be unnumberd Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails anotherand that men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them.
Preface, 1855, to First Issue of Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, N.Y.. Collect 1892
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