And he seems quite aware and compensative of this phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind on Fire Reading Group (the Meatspace* Version). | Mind on Fire] Reference

The compensative interpretation of joy and sorrow may bring an answer of peace to a man's soul, or it may not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Threshold Grace] Reference

In this great function the liver is an organ correlative or compensative to the lungs, whose office is similar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

It is almost impossible to recall the joys and sorrows of life without having some thought of their compensative relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Threshold Grace] Reference

There is a favorite compensative theory that man is miraculously self-adaptive to all circumstances, and that deprived of modern comforts and luxuries he would only become more vigorous and independent -- that in fact he was on the whole considerably happier under a feudal baron than he has been since.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

When scaled out across the enterprise, they could offer compensative advantages which cannot easily be replicated by others.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

She was only sorry that Mr. Linden had to go to his letter; but there was a compensative side to that, for her shyness was somewhat less endangered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference

Now if there is a complaint, try the CFOs or CEOs even upper executives whose salaries are way over bloated now collecting unemployment compensative with their salaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference

Also in “Proverbial Philosophy,” especially as to the “Future of Animals,” and their too shameful treatment in this world, one good reason for a compensative existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life as an Author]

I would refrase it a little: "As families continue to scatter, it may be that the desire to learn about their family out of the genealogically scientific past reflects a natural compensative impulse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [California Literary Review] Reference

As families continue to scatter, it may be that the desire to reconstruct the virtual family out of the imaginatively reconstructed and / or genealogically scientific past reflects a natural compensative impulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Literary Review] Reference

I do not say that they are provided against by any strictly compensative arrangements, though I shall bring forward and specify things which others may take as compensatory, in respect to law and justice, if they choose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference

He has been blind from birth; and it would seem here, as often observed before, that, by a compensative law of our being, in proportion as one sense is defective, the expenditure of vital energy thus saved is absorbed by some other sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference

Some can not satisfy themselves in what manner the needed compensative expression is made, and not finding how to explain the difficulties met, take refuge at last in mystery — not observing that where confessedly nothing is known, there can be nothing expressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference

Her social experiences were more adapted to his own later habits, and the feeling of ease which he enjoyed in her presence, was such, that, without deliberately weighing the claims of the two ladies against each other, he rated it as a something almost compensative for the surrender of the graceful, intellectual attractions of the wealthy widow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference

Something to life compensative, and dear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference

Then a compensative diminution will follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference

Page 276 compensative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference

Wars so undertaken, under a divine necessity, and with a divine sadness, too, by a patient people, whose business is not brutal fighting, but peaceful working, wars of this sort, in the world's long history, are scarce evils at all, and, even in the day of their wrath, bring compensative blessings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference