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单词 late standing
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late standing
a. With modifier or modifying phrase: the state or fact of having existed for a specified length of time; the state of beginning in or belonging to a specified time in the past. Chiefly in phrases such as of old standing, ancient standing, and †late standing.See also long standing n.
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1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel f. 38v The foundation of six hundred yeres standing on sure grounde, let him pull downe all.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. l. 65 The Titolati were of much later standing than Doctors.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 318/2 Another fashion of Compasses..not much differing from them though of an Elder standing.
a1741 C. Fiennes Through Eng. on Side Saddle (1888) 68 The Skull was whole and the teeth firme, tho' of so many yeares standing.
a1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 49 This is reckoned a proverb of a late standing.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod i. i. 13 These privileges were of ancient standing.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. ii. 21 There is a quarrel of twenty-five years' standing with the Parlement.
1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xxii. 324 Someone glimpsing them from the gate might easily have mistaken them for an elderly couple of many years' standing taking an habitual walk together in the sunshine.
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