countersway
English
Etymology
counter- + sway
Noun
countersway (plural countersways)
- (obsolete) A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.
- Milton
- a countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance
- Milton
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for countersway in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)