withstanderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

withstander (複数形 withstanders)

1. A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
   • 1650, Walter Raleigh, “A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Customary, Arbitrary, Voluntary and Necessary War”, in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., volume VIII (Miscellaneous Works), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1829, page 253:^[1]

     The ordinary theme and argument of history is war; which may be defined the exercise of violence under sovereign command against withstanders; force, authority, and resistance, being the essential parts thereof.

   • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662, page 38:

     Remember what I told you, this wealthy Franklin is proud, fierce, jealous, and irritable; a withstander of the nobility, and even of his neighbours, Reginald Front-de-Bœuf and Philip Malvoisin, who are no babes to strive withall.

   • 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, in Felix Holt, the Radical [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783828, page 8:

     Confidently expecting that you will comply with this request, which is the sequence of your expressed desire, I remain, sir, yours, with the respect offered to a sincere withstander, RUFUS LYON.