Vantage

n. [Fr. avantage. See ADVANTAGE.] Superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. [Rare.]

O, happy vantage of a kneeling knee. Shak.

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.

It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage-ground that he looks around him. I. Taylor.