Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hold of an anchor upon the ground.
- noun Firm hold in a figurative sense; ground of expectation or trust; security.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
- noun Hence: Firm hold: security.
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Examples
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Almost everything smashed and parted except the anchor-hold.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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Book, which is the Christian's anchor-hold of hope, dark and contradictory, then it is not to be rejected, but on a penalty that reduces to an atom, all the sufferings this earth can inflict.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman
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Letter to M.B. *** However high be the capacity of the mind, it is humiliating to find what small things can distract it, if its anchor-hold be not truly what and where it ought to be; and who does not find the need of this being often renewed and made fast?
A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall
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Almost everything smashed and parted except the anchor-hold.
Small-Boat Sailing 1917
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Almost everything smashed and parted except the anchor-hold.
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Almost everything smashed and parted except the anchor-hold.
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Almost everything smashed and parted except the anchor-hold.
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Grindal describes him as "sophistical, disdainful, and illuding arguments with irrision, when he was not able to solute the same by learning", and adds that "his great anchor-hold was in urging the literal sense of hoc est corpus meum, thereby to prove transubstantiation".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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To the believer whose anchor-hold is settled for life and death at the foot of his Redeemer's Cross, it is cheering indeed to see in these beautiful English renderings, by a scholar whose sympathies are complete with the faith and hope of the Norse psalmists, how Icelandic hearts have in the past beat true to the Gospel of Calvary, and how they do so still in these days so often troubled by alien thinking.
The Passion-Hymns of Iceland 1879-1961 1913
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Then I remember clutching at the wolfskin like one clinching a death-grip of reality, praying God not to let go a soul's anchor-hold of reason.
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