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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
standing ground en · NOUN
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(figuratively) 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.
1848, William Hodge Mill, Five Sermons on the Nature of Christianity, section 2:Those provinces of masculine knowledge seemed to her a standing-ground from which all truth could be seen more truly.
1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 7:
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