"standing ground" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1848, William Hodge Mill, Five Sermons on the Nature of Christianity, section 2",
          "text": "In opposing them we shall proceed […] on that firm standing-ground which all our truly great Divines have marked out, of adherence to the principles of the Ancient Church.",
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          "ref": "1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 7",
          "text": "Those provinces of masculine knowledge seemed to her a standing-ground from which all truth could be seen more truly.",
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        "A place on which someone or something can stand firmly, especially in order to fight a contest or to take a secure view of something; a secure foundation."
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          "fight",
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          "foundation",
          "foundation"
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        "(chiefly figurative) A place on which someone or something can stand firmly, especially in order to fight a contest or to take a secure view of something; a secure foundation."
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  "word": "standing ground"
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          "ref": "1848, William Hodge Mill, Five Sermons on the Nature of Christianity, section 2",
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        "A place on which someone or something can stand firmly, especially in order to fight a contest or to take a secure view of something; a secure foundation."
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        "(chiefly figurative) A place on which someone or something can stand firmly, especially in order to fight a contest or to take a secure view of something; a secure foundation."
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