Equipoise

Noun

 * 1) A state of balance; equilibrium.
 * 2) * 1794, Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Noble Lord,
 * Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.
 * 1) * 1869, T. S. Arthur, After the Storm, Ch. IV,
 * “An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise.
 * 1) * 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Ch. 6,
 * The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes.
 * 1) * 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part II, Raychandbhai, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai,
 * 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.
 * 1) A counterbalance.
 * 2) * 1911, H. G. Wells, The Cone,
 * The cone’s not fixed, it’s hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise.

Verb

 * 1)  To act or make to act as an equipoise.
 * 2)  To cause to be or stay in equipoise.

Adjectives
boasted; unusual; vaunted.

Thesaurus
balance, ballast, coequality, coextension, consideration, correspondence, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equality, equation, equilibrium, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, equivalent, evenness, give-and-take, identity, justice, levelness, likeness, makeweight, offset, par, parallelism, parity, poise, proportion, quid pro quo, setoff, something of value, stasis, symmetry, tit for tat

Etymology
equi- + poise

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