countervail

Example Sentences

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We depend on our memory to record, to learn and to recall, and we depend on forgetting to countervail, to sculpt and to squelch our memories.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2022

And for years, the company’s actions and public statements have borne the imprint of Musk’s whims, with no moderating force to countervail them.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2018

And I will bring to you them that shall mightily and to the hilt against all countervail and denial prove that Privy Seal is a false and damnable traitor to thee and this goodly realm.

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox

And this promised blessing of the Master himself is sufficient to countervail all the discouragements and hostility of the adversaries, thrown in the way of the reader and expositor.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David

That is, he suggests the question, whether the evils from foul air are not so great and so constant, that they countervail the advantages of shelter.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various