counterstand
English
Etymology
Noun
counterstand (plural counterstands)
- (archaic) A stand or stance against or in opposition[1]
- 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 42, lines 85–87:
- Your knowledge has no counterstand against her; / She makes provision, judges, and pursues / Her governance, as theirs the other gods.
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References
- ^ “counterstand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.