Meanings
adjectivecounterattracting (not comparable)
- not comparablerareServing to counterattract.
There are no counterattracting or counteracting forces in God or in His universe, including man.
1969, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 71, The Christian Science Publishing Society, page 9701 more example
His emotional dependency on her is matched and balanced by her dependency on him in a continuous, reciprocal, attracting and counterattracting, responsive and counter-responsive interrelationship.
1992, Evelyn Gajowski, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 112, →ISBN
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of counterattract
Origin
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