counterweigh
English edit
Etymology edit
From counter- + weigh, under the influence Anglo-Norman contrepeser (“to counterpoise”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
counterweigh (third-person singular simple present counterweighs, present participle counterweighing, simple past and past participle counterweighed)
- (intransitive) To act as counterbalance (against something).
- (transitive) To counterbalance; to balance out.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 709:
- Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade.