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Noun	1.	withstander - an opponent who resists with force or resolution; "obstinate withstanders of innovation" adversary, antagonist, opposer, resister, opponent - someone who offers opposition
	2.	withstander - a fighter who holds out against attack defender battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper - someone who fights (or is fighting)

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(74) Andrew Foster, the modern biographer of Archbishop Richard Neile of York, draws points such as these together, quoting a contemporary opinion that bishops were 'intolerable withstanders of reformation' and arguing that the imperatives of the Reformation and the reformers conflicted with the authority and the status of the bishops.

Protestant bishops in restoration England

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