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1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ii. 46 Yet all the wrongs could not a litle right downe way.

1612 W. Vaughan Approved Direct. Health Nat. & Artific. (ed. 4) vi. ii. 137 A forced sanguine complexion..might downe waigh the naturall melancholik power.

1691 G. Burnet Serm. preached Funeral of Lady-dowager Brook 11 If there is nothing in Virtue, but decency, interest, or humour..when both pleasure and advantage are in the other Scale, they will certainly downweigh them.

1723 Trickology 16 The Nod of a pretending Fop easily down-weighs the Applause of Judges competent.

a1799 J. Meikle Solitude Sweetened (1803) xcvii. 211 How often does the joy that God pours into the soul, in the time of affliction, overbalance and downweigh all the sorrow that arises from them.

1860 in Further Papers Relative to Native Affairs in App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. (1861) (1st Sess. 3rd Parl.) E.–3 f. 10 Teira's allegation of his own absolute interest..is to be accepted as final and conclusive—so as to downweigh the unanimous testimony of the great majority of the Tribe.

1939 G. Murray tr. Æschylus Persians 37 But some dark daemon, with no poisèd scale, Down weighed us, and made strength of no avail.

1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iv. 179 Native modesty Down-weighs her drooping eye-lid to the ground.

1851 D. M. Moir Message of Seth vi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 108 The gloom Of something all unfelt before, downweighs My spirit.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 223 Firuz himself..sat with head downweighed, With tears that would not flow.

1911 C. E. H. Whiton-Stone In Portuguese Garden 331 Thy sun's gold heart that scattered ray on ray, As if with light the grasses to downweigh.

2006 N. Erickson Falling into Love xxi. 176 Every few years she [sc. a tree] grew enough red berries to downweigh her arms.

1976 Jrnl. Chem. Soc.: Dalton Trans. 1976 All the atoms were refined anisotropically..using a weighting scheme..which downweighs the contribution of reflections with large F₀ and/or small θ values.

1997 Jrnl. Statist. Planning & Inference 57 247 The smooth estimator should have both a high breakdown and should downweigh points that are clear outliers.

2007 A. DaCosta et al. in E. Eberhardt et al. Rock Mech. I. v. A robust local regression model which iteratively identifies and downweighs outliers is used.