Overpoise

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  • n. preponderant weight; a counterbalance
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To outweigh; to overbalance.
  • n. Preponderant weight; a counterbalance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To outweigh.
  • n. Preponderant weight.
  • Word Usage
    "The sin of such will overpoise the salvation of their souls, the sin-end being the heaviest end of the scale: I say, that being the heaviest end which hath sin in it, they tilt over, and so are, notwithstanding their glorious profession, drowned in perdition and destruction."
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