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   Vantage , n. [Aphetic form of OE. avantage, fr. F. avantage. See Advantage.]
    Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. [R.]
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   O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
   Shak.
   
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   A position offering a superior view of a scene or situation; -- used literally and figuratively; as, from the vantage of hindsight; also called vantage point.
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   (Tennis) The first point scored after deuce; advantage{5}. [Brit.] 
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   ☞ When the server wins this point, it is called vantage in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is called vantage out.
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   To have at vantage, to have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than. “He had them at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march.” Bacon. -- Vantage ground, superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. “The vantage ground of truth.” 
   Bacon.
   
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   It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him.
   I. Taylor.
   
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   Vantage, v. t. To profit; to aid. [Obs.]
   Spenser.
   
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