withstander

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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.