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单词 stand behind
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to stand behind
to stand behind
1. intransitive. To occupy or take up a standing position behind someone or something.
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the world > space > relative position > position at the back > stand behind [verb (intransitive)]
to stand behind?c1335
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 136 Þe fals wolf stode behind, He was doggid and ek felle.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. l. 2536 (MED) Heer stant oon behynde, Duk of Athenis, turne toward hym þi stile.
1630 J. Squire Plaine Expos. Epist. to Thessalonians xvi. 460 Some standing behind did pull a string..whereby it would move the hand, as if it did blesse the people.
1777 J. Kindersley Lett. from E. Indies liv. 232 Several black fellows stand behind,..some of them playing upon a sitar.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 21 Enid..spread the board, And stood behind, and waited on the three.
2014 J. Vines Vines: My Life & Ministry 12 He stood, bracing himself by holding on to the rostrum. An aide stood behind to catch him, should he fall.
2. intransitive. To abandon or renounce one's religious faith, to apostatize. Obsolete. [Perhaps reflecting an etymological interpretation of post-classical Latin apostasia or its etymon Hellenistic Greek ἀποστασία apostasy n., although this would be more appropriately analysed as ‘standing away from’.]
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society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > be or become apostate [verb (intransitive)]
renayc1300
to go backward1382
to fall awayc1384
to stand behindc1475
to turn (one's) tippet1546
relapse1563
backslide1581
apostate1596
apostatize1611
renegade1611
apostasize1696
renegado1731
renege1744
c1475 (?c1400) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 431 (MED) And ȝif apostasie is stondyng bihynde, hou myche stondiþ bihynde ilche siche þat shal be dampned?
c1475 (?c1400) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 438 For þei stonden bihynde, and fyȝten not wiþ þe fend.
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to stand behind ——
intransitive. To sustain, support, or assist (someone or something).
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1768 A. Dow tr. M. Firishtah Hist. Hindostan I. ii. ii. 40 He forthwith stood behind his disobedience, with thirty thousand men.
1834 Morning Chron. 27 Nov. The people would stand behind such a ministry determined to back them.
1879 Western Daily Press 22 Nov. 3/4 All Ireland will stand behind the accused.
1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 6 July 2/4 The NDP stands behind the Official Languages Act, but does not view language policy as the answer to unity, he said.
2010 Independent 23 Apr. (Viewspaper section) 12/3 Governments stepped in to stand behind the global financial system at the height of the crisis.
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