equibalance

1. uncountableEqual weight; equiponderance, or unbiasedness.

present singular third person equibalances · participle present equibalancing · participle past equibalanced · past equibalanced

1. transitiveTo make of equal weight; to counterbalance.

   Good deeds are such as are equibalanced, maintaining the mean between two equally bad extremes, the too much and the too little.

   1912, Maimonides, translated by Samuel ibn Tibbon & Joseph Isaac Gorfinkle, Eight chapters of Maimonides on Ethics

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   Having known the bias of the learned Chief Justice against the Indians, your Petitioners thought, and still humbly venture to think, that he could not, in spite of his most strenuous efforts to do otherwise, bring to bear upon the question an equibalanced judgment which is so necessary to a right and proper perception of the facts of a case

   1895 May 5, Mahatma Gandhi, Petition to Lord Ripon

   Synonyms: equiponderate