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ˈvantage-ground
[vantage n. 7.]
A position which places one at an advantage for defence or attack.
Freq. in 19th cent., chiefly in fig. use.
1612Bacon Ess., Of Great Place (Arb.) 282 That cannot be without power and place; as the vantage and commanding ground. 1625― Of Truth (Arb.) 500 No pleasure is comparable, to the standing vpon the vantage ground of Truth. 1644Waller in Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser. (1888) 301, I moved not till I had full assurance..that the enemy was clearly gone, lest it might have been but a feint to draw me from my vantage ground. 1774Burke Sp. Amer. Tax. Wks. 1842 I. 170 But I quit the vantage ground on which I stand, and where I might leave the burthen of the proof upon him. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. (Bohn) 164, I am convinced that for the human soul to prosper in rustic life a certain vantage-ground is pre-requisite. 1830Herschel Study Nat. Phil. ii. vi. 173 A means of fresh attack with new vantage ground. 1878Maclear Celts i. 10 Making the Greek colony of Massilia..her vantage-ground. |