Also viewpoint. [f. VIEW sb.] A point of view: a. A mental position or attitude from which subjects or questions are considered.

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1856.  W. L. Lindsay, Pop. Hist. Brit. Lichens, 13. To paint Nature from a higher and holier view-point.

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1887.  Fox Bourne, Eng. Newspapers, I. vi. 156. Wilkes’s private life was at no stage blameless from a modern viewpoint.

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1892.  M. W. Stryker, Dies Irae, 13. Writing from the Roman Catholic viewpoint.

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  b.  In literal sense.

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1858.  W. Arnot, Laws fr. Heaven, Ser. II. xxv. 200. Change the view-point, and the scene will change.

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1875.  W. M‘Ilwraith, Guide to Wigtownshire, 75. Mochrum Loch is of striking beauty from this view-point.

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1880.  Miss Bird, Japan, I. 127. A zigzag path on the face of the precipice tends to a view-point 200 feet below.

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