weigh
verb (used with object)
to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device.
well-weighed
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a word derived from
weigh.
Example Sentences
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The bomb: a well-weighed proposal that the U.S. combine Army, Navy and air forces into a single, unified Department of War.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those who suppose that Paine did but reproduce the principles of Rousseau and Locke will find by careful study of his well-weighed language that such is not the case.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man by Moncure Daniel Conway
My determination is not sudden nor unconsidered; nor is it a woman's caprice that moves me to a well-weighed and merited decision.
From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by Francis Augustus MacNutt
A cautious, well-weighed sentence, which, coming from such a responsible quarter, was full of portentous meaning for the future.
From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by John O'Rourke
In the prosecution of this unpopular design, he advanced, however, by cautious and well-weighed steps.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
