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# A [[state#Noun|state]] of [[balance#Noun|balance]]; [[equilibrium]]. |
# A [[state#Noun|state]] of [[balance#Noun|balance]]; [[equilibrium]]. |
Latest revision as of 01:36, 9 December 2024
See also: Equipoise
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- æquipoise (archaic)
Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]equipoise (countable and uncountable, plural equipoises)
- A state of balance; equilibrium.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], 10th edition, London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
- Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.
- 1869, T. S. Arthur, chapter IV, in After the Storm:
- “An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise.
- 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, “The Figure against the Sky”, in The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women), page 135:
- The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes.
- 1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “Raychandbhai”, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:
- And I saw him thus absorbed in godly pursuits in the midst of business, not once or twice, but very often. I never saw him lose his state of equipoise.
- 2021, Ronald Mann, Justices to consider awards of costs of appellate litigation, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 20, 2021)
- To my mind, the textual arguments in this case are close to equipoise.
- A counterbalance.
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136:
- Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship.
- 1895 September 18, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Cone”, in The Plattner Story and Others, London: Methuen & Co. […], published March 1897, →OCLC, page 188:
- The cone's not fixed, it's hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise.
- 2024 September 12, David Brooks, “How a Cultural Shift Favors Harris”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- Her smiling equipoise is a statement of self-confident power against his sour fuming.
Derived terms
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[edit]counterbalance
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Verb
[edit]equipoise (third-person singular simple present equipoises, present participle equipoising, simple past and past participle equipoised)
- (transitive) To act or make to act as an equipoise.
- (transitive) To cause to be or stay in equipoise.
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Translations
[edit]act or make to act as equipoise
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cause to be or stay in balance
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