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equipoises

equipoises is the plural of equipoise.

equipoises is the third-person singular simple present indicative of equipoise.

Meaning of equipoise

Noun

equipoise (countable and uncountable, plural equipoises)

  1. A state of balance; equilibrium.
    • Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles]...
  2. A counterbalance.
    • Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship.1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136

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Questions about equipoises

What is equipoises the plural of?
Equipoises is the plural of equipoise.

Words near equipoises in the dictionary

  1. equipmentman
  2. equipmentmen
  3. equipments
  4. equipoise
  5. equipoised
  6. equipoises
  7. equipoising
  8. equipolar
  9. equipollence
  10. equipollences
  11. equipollency

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