standing ground
nounDefinitions
A place on which someone or something can stand firmly, especially in order to fight a…
A place on which someone or something can stand firmly, especially in order to fight a contest or to take a secure view of something; a secure foundation.
- In opposing them we shall proceed […] on that firm standing-ground which all our truly great Divines have marked out, of adherence to the principles of the Ancient Church.
- Those provinces of masculine knowledge seemed to her a standing-ground from which all truth could be seen more truly.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for standing ground. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA