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Definition of Defenders
1. defender [n] - See also: defender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defenders
Literary usage of Defenders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Justice and the Poor: A Study of the Present Denial of Justice to the Poor by Reginald Heber Smith (1919)
"William Dean Embree, in his first report as counsel for the Voluntary Defenders
Committee, makes this frank statement of his experience in New York:2 " Of ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1818)
"WCTU you one of the people called Defenders in November, 1793 ?—1 was. ...
Were you acquainted with Defenders, in this town, of your religious persuasion? ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1854)
"By the adjusted missive of agreement, the defenders, as is usual in all ...
During the said first or trial year of the lease, the defenders engaged in ..."
4. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Defenders of that Way; and how they still Refuse this World, to do their Father's
will. Go tell them also of those dainty things That Pilgrimage unto the ..."
5. Cases on the Law of Torts by Francis Hermann Bohlen (1915)
"The defenders pleaded, inter alia;—(7) The loss and damage condescended on being
due to the wilful and criminal act of the said John McGuire . . . the ..."
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