The word 'counterpoise' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means a force or influence that balances or offsets another. For example, you could say: The counterpoise of the media's constant criticism of the government is its praise of its policies.
Miranda Raison and Laura Donnelly, as the two objects of his affection, offer poise and counterpoise: one forthright, groaning at poetry; the other airy and skittish.
Nevertheless, the survival of powerful dynasts and provincial interests, as a legacy of the war and the fertility of the royal house, represented a counterpoise to the crown that Philip the Fair had never known.
The one exception was the trebuchet, an engine worked by counterpoise.
By showering favours on Elizabeth's two sons by her first husband and on her five brothers and her seven sisters, Edward began to build up a group of magnates who would be a counterpoise to the Nevilles.
A violent assault upon this point of view was launched by the Gothic Revivalists, who in the mid-19th century contended that the breathtaking counterpoise of a cathedral's flying buttresses was far more dramatically expressive of firmitas than the ponderous massiveness of its sturdy western towers.
Popular epigraphy, including such matter as graffiti at Pompeii and other Vulgar Latin inscriptions, provides further counterpoise to the official stereotypes.
She was as good a writer as he was, and in her calm, genial wisdom counterpoised his volatility and quick temper.
Descriptions of sending text-messages to various ex-girlfriends, or of visiting his hometown to find it has changed, are counterpoised by poems about Agamemnon, the warrior from "The Iliad", or Orpheus, a musician who travelled down to the underworld to try and retrieve his lover, Eurydice.This sense of the otherworldly inflects all of Mr Maxwell's poems.
Marian Evans (the novelist George Eliot), writing alongside Huxley on the rationalist Westminster Review, an influential magazine at the cutting edge of 19th-century literary Britain, saw his brilliance as counterpoised by a love of provocation.
The mechanisation of daily life is counterpoised to the bliss of nature.
And so "palm-fringed beaches" and "lush rain forests" and other "sleepy backwaters" are invariably counterpoised against "teeming cities" with their "bustling souks".
