compensative
Example Sentences
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The compensative interpretation of joy and sorrow may bring an answer of peace to a man's soul, or it may not.
From The Threshold Grace by Ainsworth, Percy C.
It is almost impossible to recall the joys and sorrows of life without having some thought of their compensative relation.
From The Threshold Grace by Ainsworth, Percy C.
If sin came by thee, And by sin, death,—the ransom-righteousness, The heavenly life and compensative rest Shall come by means of thee.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
She was only sorry that Mr. Linden had to go to his letter; but there was a compensative side to that, for her shyness was somewhat less endangered.
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan
The most exquisite, the most unforeseen, the most compensative feature of my life has been, my personal friendship with the professors.
From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon
