fullstanding

English

Alternative forms

  • full-standing

Etymology

From full + standing. Compare German vollständig (complete, whole, entire, perfect), Dutch volstaan (to suffice), Swedish fullständig (full, complete, with everything included).

Adjective

fullstanding (comparative more fullstanding, superlative most fullstanding)

  1. Completely standing; standing fully upright.
    • 1995, Film History, volume 7, page 120:
      [] could be watched by small groups of people at about eye level through a hole cut in a wall or other fullstanding opaque divider.
    • 2009, Heritage Auctions, “Heritage Civil War Auction #6024 - Page 78”, in Inc.:
      With the escutcheon is an original Collis family scrapbook containing numerous postwar newspaper clippings about the life of this remarkable citizen and the honors paid to him at his death. Included in the book is a faded, fullstanding carte de viste photograph of Collis as sergeant major of the 18th Pa. Vol. Infantry, []
  2. Complete in standing; standing fully on one's own; whole; sound; complete; entire; absolute.
    • 1982, Arild Holt-Jensen, Geography, its history and concepts:
      To achieve a fullstanding objective method of historical research is neither possible nor desirable in the view of Robin Collingwood (Clausen 1968, p35).
    • 1999, Arnault Serra-Horguelin, The federal experiment in Ethiopia:
      Participation means that a member state, as such, as a fullstanding state and independently from the size of their territory or their population, is entitled to be involved in decision making at the level of the federation.

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