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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

... desires, which in all true Christians are exceedingly mounted above themselves. Now, indeed, this is in effect, and really to say, "we have no sin." Herein is a delusion, a self deceiving fancy, that begets too much self pleasing. Let us know where our stance is,(245) infinitely below either our duty or our desire, and remind this often, that we may not be in hazard to be drunk with self love and self deceit in this particular. Besides, are there not many Christians who, having been once illuminated, and had some serious exercises in their souls, both ...

— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... Roush on the Ruidosa, an' he peached to save his hide. This fellow is a born liar, but I reckon he's tellin' the truth this time. If he rues back on his story, tell Billie to put an advertisement in the Live-Oaks 'Round-Up' and I'll drop in to town an' have a stance with Mr. Roush." ...

— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine

... them by a narrow margin of notches. According to the author he had been in his youth a fine bat, but this statement has been cruelly discredited by the artist who illustrated the book, and who placed the gentleman in an attitude (or 'stance,' as they say now), and gave him a grip on the handle, from which nothing but ridicule and disaster could result. Mr. Bedford is not like this. Mr. Bedford is one of those rare artists who read ...

— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas

... for my week-end with Charles. The weather was warm and sunny, I was bringing my golf clubs down with me, and I had just discovered (and meant to put into practice) an entirely new stance which made it impossible to miss the object ball. It was this that I was explaining to Charles and his wife at dinner on Friday, when the ...

— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne

... which is but a stone's-throw from the bridge. They carried me across the Oise to a mill hard by the boulevard of the Bridge fort, whence, from a window, I beheld all that chanced. No man sitting in the gallery of a knight's hall to see jongleurs play and sing could have had a better stance, or have seen more clearly all the ...

— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang

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