Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
over against en · ADP
Meanings
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In comparison to.
Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.” Then you will not take pride in one man over against another.
1984, The Holy Bible, New International Version, Zondervan, →ISBN, 1 Corinthians 4:6:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, against.
Then he took his place over against the wall.
1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 272: