offstand
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Those who are involved in long enmities sacrifice continually to the hidit in order to offstand such affliction."
- "[…] announced in its issue of October tenth that New Jersey's Governor, Livingston, had received word of the intended attack and was planning measures to offstand it."
- "[…] and hope to build with such permanency and force as to offstand the headwaters which will surely come again."
- ""His excellency is wise not to waste breath renewing it. He grows fat, and his breath is short" "What can you expect to gain by resistance, save death?" Gonzales asked. "How can you hope to offstand a score and a half of us?"
- "To offstand the dire effects of its hoarding policy, the Secretary, from March 4, 1885, began lending money to the national banks — that is he deposited it in those institutions."
- "Smith paid seven thousand pounds for the copyright, though it was not a financial success ; George Eliot, in fact, afterward gave a short story, "Brother Jacob," to offstand the publisher's loss."
Etymology
From Middle English ofstonden, from Old English ofstandan (“to remain, persist, continue; restore, make restitution”), from Proto-Germanic *afstandaną, *afstāną, equivalent to off- + stand. Cognate with Dutch afstaan (“to cede, yield, relinquish”), German abstehen (“to project, stick out, stand away”), Swedish avstå (“to refrain, desist, give up, relinquish”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ofstonden, ofstandan, *afstandaną