noun
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That which stanches or checks a flow.
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A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
verb
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To stop the flow of.
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A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
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To cease, as the flowing of blood.
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To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
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To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
adjective
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Strong and tight; sound; firm.
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a stanch ship
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Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast.
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a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent
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Close; secret; private.
Examples of stanch in a Sentence
Lloyd was a stanch supporter of the revolution.
Though they themselves trace their origin to seven Mahommedan tribes, Hindus appear to have been associated with them at an early period; at any rate, their religious creed and practices as stanch worshippers of Kali (Devi, Durga), the Hindu goddess of destruction, had certainly no flavour of Islam in them.
In 1759, during the Seven Years' War, the French, as Maria Theresa's allies, occupied the town, and, much to the irritation of Goethe's father, who was a stanch partisan of Frederick the Great, a French lieutenant, Count Thoranc, was quartered on the Goethe household.
The queen required a protector, whom she found, not in the feeble Darnley, nor in any of the leaders of the factions, but in the strong, determined earl who had ever been a stanch supporter of the throne against the Protestant party and English influence.
New writers began to make their appearance, and, while some of these were stanch to Brandes, others were inclined to hold rather with Drachmann.
Though a stanch Covenanter, he was a zealous Royalist, preaching before Charles I.
The people of Niriz were stanch followers of the Bab (see BABIIs s), and rose against the government in 1850 and in 1852, with disastrous results.
Hiero through his long reign was the stanch friend and ally of Rome in her struggles with Carthage; but his paternal despotism, under which Greek life and civilization at Syracuse had greatly flourished, was unfortunately succeeded by the rule of a man who wholly reversed his policy.
Though a prominent member of the inner Liberal circle and a stanch party man, it was not supposed by the public at this time that any ambition for the highest place could be associated with Sir Henry CampbellBannerman; but the divisions among the Liberals, and the rivalry between Lord Rosebery and Sir William Harcourt, made the political situation an anomalous one.
It was in no small degree due to his stanch and unwavering leadership that the Church was saved from the peril of being overwhelmed by the rising tide of the pagan revival which swept over Asia during the first half of the 2nd century, and it was his unfaltering allegiance to the Apostolic faith that secured the defeat of the many forms of heresy which threatened to destroy the Church from within.
The Angevins took their revenge under Martin IV., who was a stanch supporter of the French.
It was in vain that Carlo di Malatesta, a stanch adherent of Gregory, sought at the eleventh hour to negotiate a compromise between Gregory and the synod.
In spite of their feuds with the archbishops, the burghers of Cologne were stanch Catholics, and the number of the magnificent medieval churches left is evidence at once of their piety and their wealth.