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Countervail

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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COUNTERVAIL . To countervail ( Esther 7:4 , Sir 6:15 ) is to make up for, give an equivalent, as in More’s Utopia : ‘All the goodes in the worlde are not liable to countervayle man’s life.’

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Countervail'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​c/countervail.html. 1909.
 
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