1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence viii. 369 Humility, a very compensating and atoning virtue.

1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 334 The compensating sanctity of another.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. vii. 71 I trust In the compensating great God.

1878 J. W. Ebsworth Bagford Ballads (Ballad Soc.) 924 To make the parents give a compensating dowry.

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXVI. at Pendulum Graham's mercurial pendulum..may be considered as the first compensating pendulum.

1874 H. Godfray Astron. iii. 42 They are compensating pendulums constructed by taking advantage of the unequal expansions of different substances.

1855 W. H. Preece Brit. Patent 2608 At the same time that the line circuit is completed, a local circuit is also completed, which passes a compensating current through the paper..in the opposite direction.

1896 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 5) xvi. 392 An iron structure, slotted..to receive the compensating conductors.

1896 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 5) xvi. 395 Sayers' compensating winding with commutator coils.

1906 A. Russell Alternating Currents II. 40 Let n'C' be the compensating ampere-turns on each field magnet.

1909 C. F. Smith Pract. Altern. Currents (ed. 4) 416 The compensating winding employed in a series motor consists of an additional winding on the stator placed with its axis midway between the main poles, and connected either in series with the main circuit or short-circuited on itself.

1967 H. Cotton Adv. Electr. Technol. xxvii. 1086 The whole of the component F_c is neutralized by means of a compensating winding housed in slots in the pole faces.

1914 C. G. Jung in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 964/2 We..find here these compensating vices to be an essential content of the unconscious. Obviously, therefore, the reverse is true—namely that unconscious virtues compensate for conscious deficiencies.

1914 C. G. Jung in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 965/1 In the case of normal people the principal function of the unconscious is to effect a compensation and thus produce a balance. All extreme conscious tendencies are softened..through an effective opposite impulse in the unconscious. This compensating agency..maintains itself through certain unconscious, inconsequent activities.

1927 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry x. 237 His compensating feeling of superiority went far beyond the bounds of reasonable possibility, and produced the grandiose ideas of his psychosis.

1944 L. G. Lowrey in J. McV. Hunt Personality & Behavior Disorders II. vi. xxvi. 815 Under ordinary circumstances, an individual is not able to develop a complete feeling of personal adequacy, or complete group security. But, for the average situation, there are compensating satisfactions..which offset..the frustrations.