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Definition of Protended
1. protend [v] - See also: protend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protended
Literary usage of Protended
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... are not stamps or impressions passively printed upon the soul from without,
but ideas vitally protended or actively exerted from within itself. ..."
2. The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1880)
"mu very unwilling to join the expedition to Troy, And protended to be mad. lliu-,
... protended ..."
3. Outlines of Chronology, Ancient and Modern: Being an Introduction to the by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1831)
"That the system now offered is the best that may be .devised, is not protended ;
that it is decidedly preferable to any which the author has met .with, ..."