counterstand

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noun

A stand or stance against or in opposition

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Meanings

nouncounterstand (plural counterstands)

plural counterstands

  1. archaicA 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

Origin

From counter- + stand.

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APA

counterstand. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterstand

MLA

“counterstand.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterstand. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counterstand,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterstand.

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