Outstander

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something outstandingly good.
  2. 2
    One who persistently opposes something. Scotland, obsolete

    "About this time, the old constable of Dundee being aged and sickly, was carried by coach, unable to ride, to Edinburgh, because he was an outstander against the covenant."

Example

More examples

"About this time, the old constable of Dundee being aged and sickly, was carried by coach, unable to ride, to Edinburgh, because he was an outstander against the covenant."

Etymology

From outstand + -er.

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