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Offstanding

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Standing off; standing or situated at a distance; distant; far removed; remote.

    "In the offstanding hill near Little Malvern the rock is porphyritic, being composed of small, light-coloured crystals of felspar set in an amorphous greenish [...]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of offstand form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From off- + standing. Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”), German Abstand (“distance”), Swedish avstånd (“distance”).

Etymology 2

From offstand.

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