ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] That counteracts.

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[1656.  see CONTRA-ACTING].

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1793.  Beddoes, Obesity, 103. Counteracting causes.

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1832.  Ht. Martineau, Homes Abroad, ii. 22. The counteracting forces.

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1876.  Mozley, Univ. Serm., xvi. 265. Self-respect, or conscience, or holy fear … is the counter-acting principle to the love of human praise.

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  Hence Counteractingly adv.

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1847.  De Quincey, Protest., Wks. 1862, VII. 161. As if … God had thus … self-counteractingly stepped in to solve his own problems.

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