ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ING2.] That compensates.

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1710.  Norris, Chr. Prud., viii. 369. Humility, a very compensating and atoning vertue.

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1858.  J. Martineau, Stud. Chr., 334. The compensating sanctity of another.

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1868.  Browning, Ring & Bk., VII. 1473. I trust In the compensating great God.

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1878.  J. W. Ebsworth, Bagford Ball. (Ballad Soc.), 924. To make the parents give a compensating dowry.

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  b.  Compensating-balance, -pendulum: see COMPENSATION 3.

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1819.  Rees, Cycl., s.v. Pendulum, Graham’s mercurial pendulum … may be considered as the first compensating pendulum.

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1874.  H. Godfray, Astron., iii. 42. They are compensating pendulums constructed by taking advantage of the unequal expansions of different substances.

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  Hence Compensatingly adv.

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1876.  Tinsley’s Mag., XVIII. 50. The Giver of good gifts gives his gifts compensatingly.

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1885.  G. Meredith, Diana, II. xii. 286. He was compensatingly heterodox in his view of the Law’s persecution of women.

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