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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

 

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