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Makeweight   Listen
noun
Makeweight  n.  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Makeweight" Quotes from Famous Books



... which helped to prepare the way for happier times. Here Turgot's view of history is sharply opposed to Voltaire's. He considers Christianity to have been a powerful agent of civilisation, not a hinderer or an enemy. Had he executed his design, his work might well have furnished a notable makeweight to the view held by Voltaire, and afterwards more judicially developed by Gibbon, that "the triumph of barbarism and religion" was a ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury



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