outstander

noun — 2 senses

outstander

noun

Etymology From outstand + -er.

1

Something outstandingly good.

2

Scotland, Obsolete One who persistently opposes something.

  • About this time, the old constable of Dundee being aged and sickly, was carried by coach, unable to ride, to Edinburgh, because he was an outstander against the covenant.1829, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, in the Reign of Charles I, page 180:

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