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noun

Stance n.

A stanza. (Obs.)

A station; a position; a site. (Scot.)

(Golf, Baseball) The position of a player's feet, relative to each other and to the ball, when he is making a stroke or at bat.

The mental attitude, position, or approach a person adopts in respect to something.

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Etymology of 'Stance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stance" Quotes from Famous Books

... reached his favourite thinking stance, he forgot all about ecclesiastical politics and the strifes of the Kers with the minister. He stood alone in the wonder of the sunset. It glowed to the zenith. But, as very frequently in his own water-colours, the colour had run down to the horizon and flamed intensest crimson in the Nick ...

— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

... noting only in passing the quality of the men who were taking service with Vacuum Tube Transport. These were the soldiers he'd be commanding in the immediate future and the prospects looked grim. There were few veterans among them. Their stance, their demeanor, their ... well, you could tell a veteran even though he be Rank Private. You could tell a veteran of even one fracas. ...

— Mercenary • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... feeling. There are enough of these outbursts to warrant our expecting others, but we are too frequently disappointed. Perhaps Johnson thought of most of Shakespeare's tragedies as "imperial tragedies" and that is why he could maintain a stance of aloofness; conversely, "the play of Timon is a domestick Tragedy, and therefore strongly fastens on the attention of the reader." But the "tragedy" of Timon does not capture the attention of the modern reader, and perhaps all attempts to fix Johnson's likes and dislikes, and ...

— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

... of myself to do good; I borrow occasion of charity from my own necessities, and supply the wants of others, when I am in most need myself: for it is an honest stratagem to take advantage of ourselves, and so to husband the acts of virtue, that, where they are defective in one circum- stance, they may repay their want, and multiply their goodness in another. I have not Peru in my desires, but a competence and ability to perform those good works to which he hath inclined my nature. He is rich who hath enough to be charitable; and it is hard to be so poor that a noble ...

— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne

... assumed the stance of a swordsman. His smile was foxlike. For the first time, Joe noticed the scar along the other's cheek. It was white now, which brought it into prominence. Yes, Sandor Rakoczi, in his time, had copped one more than once. At least ...

— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds

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