Definition of Guardee

1. Noun. (rare) guardsman ¹

2. Noun. (biochemistry) Any protein (involved in an immune system) that when modified by a pathogen becomes bound by a guard protein, precipitating the immune response ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Guardee

1. a guardsman [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guardee

guard station
guard stations
guardable
guardage
guardages
guardant
guardant(ip)
guardants
guarddog
guarddogs
guarded
guarded rights
guardedly
guardedness
guardednesses
guardee (current term)
guardees
guardenage
guarder
guarders
guardfish
guardful
guardhouse
guardhouses
guardian
guardian ad litem
guardian angel
guardian angels
guardian spirit
guardianage

Literary usage of Guardee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Past ten o'clock, and a rainy night, a farce by Thomas John Dibdin (1815)
"guardee! Snaps. Go and plague your husbands. . . . Har. Or if they should, we have only to recollect their present kindness, and bid them remember Cha. ..."

2. The Guardian by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1804)
"In the mean time I shall fill up my paper with a letter which comes to me from another of my obliged correspondents. ' DEAR guardee, ' THIS comes to you ..."

3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1904)
"That old chap in the top-hat by the lamp-post is an ex-guardee. That's why he's saluting in slow time. No, there's no regulation governing these things, ..."

4. The British Essayists;: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"In the mean time I shall fill up my paper with a letter which comes to me from another of my obliged correspondents. ' DEAR guardee ..."

5. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His by Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811)
"In the mean time I shall fill up my paper with a letter which comes to me from another of my obliged correspondents. " DEAR guardee, " THIS comes to you ..."

6. Problems of the Panama Canal: Including Climatology of the Isthmus, Physics by Henry Larcom Abbot (1907)
"... and each of the members has carefully guardee himself from expressing a definite opinion. Admiral Walker, at his recen examination before the Senate ..."

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