offstanding

adjective

1. Standing off; standing or situated at a distance; distant; far removed; remote.

   In the offstanding hill near Little Malvern the rock is porphyritic, being composed of small, light-coloured crystals of felspar set in an amorphous greenish [...]

Where it comes from

From off- + standing. Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”), German Abstand (“distance”), Swedish avstånd (“distance”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry offstanding (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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