Word Meanings - AGAINSTAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To withstand.
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- WITHSTAND
To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments. Piers Plowman. I withstood him to the face. Gal. ii. 11. Some village Hampden, that, - WITHSTANDER
One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power. - NOTWITHSTANDING
Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of. We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude