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Definition of Stock-still

1. Adverb. Without moving or making a sound. "He couldn't hold still any longer"

2. Adjective. Absolutely still. "They stood rooted in astonishment"

Definition of Stock-still

1. Adjective. Absolutely motionless, perfectly still. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stock-still

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Literary usage of Stock-still

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Granby: A Novel by Thomas Henry Lister (1826)
"... added fresh arguments to her former stock. Still she was sensible, that since she could not assume, from his manner alone, however unequivocal, ..."

2. The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1908)
"ing he did not fly, as he expected, nor come on to fight him, as he apprehended, but stand stock-still, the old man stood still too, ..."

3. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"In the middle decades of the last century, when as yet foreign immigration was not overwhelming, and the slowly dwindling native stock still held its own, ..."

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