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单词 to stickle up for
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to stickle up for
b. intransitive. With for: to strive or contend on behalf of (a person); to stand up for. Also to stickle up for. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (transitive)] > support or defend
to stand by ——OE
to speak for ——a1300
to stand for ——1384
maintainc1390
to stand up for1562
to stand out for?c1576
to stand to ——1582
patronize1595
stickle1632
to stick up for1792
championize1840
champion1844
to take up the cudgels1869
1632 D. Rogers Pract. Catech. iii. 48 In Arbitratorships, not stickling for parties, but for a peaceable agreement upon equall condition betweene them.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie i. sig. E3 If Servilius and others..had not stickled hard for him with the Souldiers.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 202 When Fortune (as she's wont) turn'd fickle And for the foe began to stickle.
1703 S. Centlivre Love's Contrivance iv. ii. 41 Come, come, Cousin, we never stickle up for the Person we don't care for.
1719 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 72 He was Mr. Penn's stiff Friend and had stickl'd for him tho' to no effect.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. viii. 91 The Widow Bevis indeed stickled hard for me.
1821 W. Cobbett Amer. Gardener (new ed.) Pref. §9 The gentleman has chosen the gardener; and the reason why he stickles for him is, that, if he allow the gardener to be a bad one, he himself has made a bad choice.
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