compensative
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It is almost impossible to recall the joys and sorrows of life without having some thought of their compensative relation.
From The Threshold Grace by Percy C. Ainsworth
The most exquisite, the most unforeseen, the most compensative feature of my life has been, my personal friendship with the professors.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
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 Percy C. Ainsworth
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
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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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