counterstand
nounEtymology From counter- + stand.
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Archaic A stand or stance against or in opposition
- Your knowledge has no counterstand against her; / She makes provision, judges, and pursues / Her governance, as theirs the other gods.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: