different between counterattractive vs counterattracting

English

Etymology

counter- +? attractive

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt????t?akt?v/

Adjective

counterattractive (not comparable)

1. (rare) Acting as a counterattraction; counterattracting.
   • 1876–1939: David Harris, Britain and the Bulgarian Horrors of 1876, page 126 (2007 reprint; Kessinger Publishing, LLC; ?ISBN, 9781432501501)

     In the struggle against the influence of such revelations, the counterattractive force of appeals to consider British interests was weakening.

   • 1966: William Robert Catton, From animistic to naturalistic sociology, page 285 (McGraw-Hill)

     He saw the relations among prices of land, corn, flour, and bread as dependent on “growth of the power of association” which makes “circulation” more rapid “as the attractive and counterattractive forces increase in their intensity.”

   • 1984: Ulrich Schneider, Die Londoner Music Hall und ihre Songs, 1850–1920, volume 24, page 75 (M. Niemeyer; ?ISBN, 9783484421240)

     Brian Harrison rechnet in Drink and the Victorians die MH zurecht zu den “counterattractive influences which fostered sobriety during the 19th Century”¹⁰⁰ und betont wie schon die MH-Manager, daß die MH keine rein männliche Domäne war wie das Pub, sondern Familienunterhaltung bot und damit eine wichtige Forderung der Temperenzler erfüllte.

   • 2002: Mark A. Noll (editor), God and Mammon: Protestants, money, and the market, 1790–1860, page 109 (Oxford University Press; ?ISBN, 9780195148015)

     As John Rule has observed, in this context Methodism must be considered a counterattractive, as well as a counteractive, force, for it provided its own alternative, “improving,” “respectable” recreations, which were assimilated into the calendars of local society.⁵⁵

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English

Etymology

counterattract + -ing

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt????t?akt??/

Adjective

counterattracting (not comparable)

1. (rare) Serving to counterattract.
   • 1969: Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 71, page 970 (The Christian Science Publishing Society)

     There are no counterattracting or counteracting forces in God or in His universe, including man.

   • 1992: Evelyn Gajowski, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies, page 112 (University of Delaware Press; ?ISBN, 9780874133981)

     His emotional dependency on her is matched and balanced by her dependency on him in a continuous, reciprocal, attracting and counterattracting, responsive and counter-responsive interrelationship.

Verb

counterattracting

1. present participle of counterattract