equibalance

From equi- +‎ balance.

equibalance (uncountable)

1. Equal weight; equiponderance, or unbiasedness.

equibalance (third-person singular simple present equibalances, present participle equibalancing, simple past and past participle equibalanced)

1. (transitive) To make of equal weight; to counterbalance.
   • 1895 May 4, Mahatma Gandhi, Petition to Lord Ripon:

     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

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

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

• equiponderate

• “equibalance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.