Staunch vs Legal - What's the difference?
staunch | legal | Related terms |
loyal, trustworthy, reliable, outstanding
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dependable, persistent
* Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.
To stop the flow of (blood).
To stop, check, or deter an action.
* Somebody's got to staunch those press leaks!
Relating to the law or to lawyers.
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, title= Having its basis in the law.
Being allowed or prescribed by law.
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, title= (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
(US, Canada) Paper]] in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 [[millimetre, mm × 355.6 mm).
As adjectives the difference between staunch and legal
is that staunch is loyal, trustworthy, reliable, outstanding while legal is relating to the law or to lawyers.As a verb staunch
is to stop the flow of (blood).As a noun legal is
paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).As a proper noun Legal is
a town in Alberta, Canada.staunch
English
Alternative forms
* stanchAdjective
(er)- He's been a staunch supporter of mine through every election.
- he relished a glass of choice old wine in season as both nourishing and bloodmaking and possessing aperient virtues (notably a good burgundy which he was a staunch believer in)
Verb
(es)Usage notes
The spelling staunch'' is more commonly used for the adjective. In contrast, ''stanch is more commonly used as the spelling of the verb.Anagrams
* *legal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Waking life, passage=After 50 years, legal segregation is a distant memory, and race in America is not the unbridgeable chasm it once was. The country has a black president. The sort of comity that King evoked, in which the descendants of slaves and of slave owners “sit down together at the table of brotherhood”, can be found in many places, including the Deep South. The rate of marriage between blacks and whites is rising.}}