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Definition of Outbalances
1. outbalance [v] - See also: outbalance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outbalances
Literary usage of Outbalances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dramatic Magazine (1829)
"... Though rivers may roar with the torrent, and air Re verb'rate its echoes like
tones of despair, The shriek of my Kelly outbalances all. ..."
2. Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1834)
"The legitimate object of political measures is the good of the people ; and a
great sum of good a war must produce, if it outbalances even this portion of ..."
3. Art for Art's Sake: Seven University Lectures on the Technical Beauties of by John Charles van Dyke (1904)
"The mental man outbalances the physical, and education eradicates the natural
taste in favor of an acquired one, which is stronger and more suitable to ..."
4. Utopia: And History of King Richard III by Thomas More (1834)
"The pain of hunger must give us the pleasure of eating ; and here the pain
outbalances the pleasure : and as the pain is more vehement, so it lasts much ..."
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