compensative

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If sin came by thee, And by sin, death,—the ransom-righteousness, The heavenly life and compensative rest Shall come by means of thee.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The compensative interpretation of joy and sorrow may bring an answer of peace to a man's soul, or it may not.

From The Threshold Grace by Ainsworth, Percy C.

Still, it will be seen to be a part of this more mitigated view, that Christ suffers evil as evil; which evil suffered is accepted as a compensative expression of God's indignation against sin.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

It is idle to talk of education and civilization and the like as corrective or compensative agencies.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

M. César promised a compensative proportion of all three qualities, could I only "draw him out"; and besides, he was not like Mr. Canning's "Knife-Grinder,"—for, evidently, he had a story to tell.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various