Meaning of in one's stead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In place of someone or something.
   formal, literary
2. As a successor to someone or something.
   formal, literary
3. Instead of or rather than someone or something.
   formal, literary
4. As a person's deputy or representative.
   archaic, formal, literary
5. As replacement for someone or something in a physical place.
   formal, literary, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Then the people of the land tooke Jehoahaz the ſon of Joſiah, and made him King in his fathers ſtead in Ieruſalem.”

“Bleſſed Lord [Jesus], they crucifie thee for all thy good vvorks: if thou hadſt been guilty, poſſibly thou mighteſt have been ſpared in the stead of Barabbas; […]”

“[W]henever any vvord doth not fully content us, vve take upon us to conclude, firſt that the author could never have us'd it, and ſecondly, that he muſt have uſed that very one vvhich vve conjecture, in its ſtead.”

“A Laſh like mine no honeſt man ſhall dread, / But all ſuch babling blockheads in his ſtead.”

“Dovvn falls the venerable pile, th' abode / Of our forefathers, a grave vvhiſker'd race, / But taſteleſs. Springs a palace in its ſtead, / But in a diſtant ſpot; […]”

“Features convulsed and mutterings dread, / Show terror reigns in sorrow's stead; […]”

“Some maiden, of her own accord, / Offers her life for that of her lord, / And is willing to die in his stead.”

“"A poor knight-bachelor, without birth or fortune, was not fit," he [Bertrand du Guesclin] said, "to lead the lords of France;" and he begged the King to choose, in his stead, one of the numerous royal princes who surrounded him; but Charles [i.e., Charles V of France, then Dauphin] persisted, and solemnly presented him with the sword, the token of his office.”

“In December 2020 the Matlock branch services, which currently run through to Newark, will be cut back to Nottingham, but in their stead EMR will extend the hourly Crewe to Derby service through to Newark Castle.”

“Thẽ [then] Iaakobs angre vvas kindeled againſt Rahél, and he ſaid, Am I in Gods ſtede, vvhich hathe vvithholden frõ [from] thee the frute of the vvombe?”

“Didſt thou [Jesus] not chooſe even that vvhich thou novv groaneſt under; and vvert vvilling to put thy Soul in our Souls ſtead, and bear the ſin of thoſe vvhich are novv thy burden?”

“Examined after her own fashion, Zarah confirmed the tale of Christian in all its points, and admitted that she had deranged the project laid for a mask, by placing the dwarf in her own stead; […]”

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