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Definition of Countervails
1. countervail [v] - See also: countervail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countervails
Literary usage of Countervails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Whether a certificate countervails a report. 16. Preliminaries to exceptions.
18. Reviewing report, to found exceptions. 17. Deposit. 20. ..."
2. A Complete Body of Conveyancing: In Theory and Practice by Edward Wood (1792)
"Cro.Jac. iz~j.pl. 17. 4 Co 31.«. The Manner of making livery, fee poft. (E) What
amounts to a. Feo ff 'ment. A Leaf e and Relé n fe countervails a ..."
3. American Poets and Their Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1916)
"There can be any number of Supremes—One does not countervail another, any more
than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another. ..."
4. The Vital Study of Literature, and Other Essays by William Norman Guthrie (1912)
"There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more
than one eye's sight countervails another, or one life countervails another* ..."
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