counterweighing

Verb

counterweigh (third-person singular simple present counterweighs, present participle counterweighing, simple past and past participle counterweighed)

1. (intransitive) To act as counterbalance (against something).
2. (transitive) To counterbalance; to balance out.
   • Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 709