Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stand against; withstand; oppose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To withstand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To stand against;
withstand ;oppose
Etymologies
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Examples
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We had different kinds of encounters with four or five different types of treesome we gently brushed againstand then there was a more coercive meeting with a big banksia whose scaly, knobbly bark left a passage of black scales on the paper as if a huge reptile had passed over it.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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We had different kinds of encounters with four or five different types of treesome we gently brushed againstand then there was a more coercive meeting with a big banksia whose scaly, knobbly bark left a passage of black scales on the paper as if a huge reptile had passed over it.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Instead they chose to brutally torture him which I was definitely againstand in doing so,turned a menace into a millionaire.
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To these thoughts, and to all such that would put us out of peace and restfulness of heart, we should none otherwise againstand, [290] but as we would the self fiend of hell, and as much we should flee therefrom as from the loss of our soul.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Jesu grant us His grace, to consent to the good and againstand the evil.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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And not only releasing of purgatory that thou hast deserved for the same sins done before, what so they be, thou mayst deserve, if thou stiffly againstand them, but also much grace in this life, and much meed in the bliss of heaven.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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