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n. - The keystone of an arch; Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.

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  • The tenet of universal foreordination takes from us this "coigne of vantage," and lands us in dynamic Pantheism.
  • There are fathers and mothers who urge their daughters to make haste to occupy every coigne of vantage, and gradually advance into the heart of the enemy's country.
  • In fact, books flocked there as martlets did to Macbeth's castle; there was "no jutty frieze or coigne of vantage" but a book had made it his "pendent bed," -- and it...
  • States to give them the control of the general government, from which coigne of advantage they could proceed in their own time and way to possess themselves of such...
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