[UP- 7.] The action of standing (up), or rising to one’s feet; the fact of remaining in place.
Some dialect uses are recorded in the Eng. Dial. Dict.
1535. Coverdale, Isaiah xxxiii. 3. Graunte … that at thy vpstondinge the Gentiles maye be scatred abrode.
1538. Latimer, in Nichols, Hist. Leics. (1800), III. 1065/2. He wold be an humble sewter … for the upstandynge of his forsayd howsse.
1861. J. Edmond, Children’s Ch. at Home, xi. 166. There were many feelings expressed in that upstanding and applause.
1886. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. cxxxvi. 6. The original upheaval and perpetual upstanding of the habitable land.
